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THE 



HOUSE OF HANNA 



BY 



SARAH A. HANNA 



BROOKVILLE, INDIANA 

1906 



DEDICATION. 



To Mrs. Kate Hanna Cruikshank, my only surviving 
sister, I affectionately dedicate this history of our people 
and our native valley of the White Water. I herein desire to 
express my gratitude to my cousin, Mary Leonard Hanna, 
for records collected in her travels abroad, and also to my 
nephew, Theophilus Dickerson, for kindly furnishing court 
and county records. The Author. 



FROM CHART'S IRISH PEDIGREE, FIFTH EDITION 

(1892) V< >L. 2, PAGE 551— HANNAH OF 

IRELAND AND SCOTLAND. 

Kras: Ar.. three roebuck's heads. A/.., collared or with a 
bell pend. and thirial gu. Crest: (Scotland) a cross crosslet 
fitche issuing out of a crescenl sa.; i Newry, Ireland) Hands 

»ping couped at wrist so; I London) A wolf's head erased 
sa. « >ther crests: < Dublin Wills) a lion ramp. Couped, his 
dexter paws resting on a cross crosslet jitchu ; (Newry Will) 

:allop shell. Mollars: of the Kirkdale, Graunan, Knock, 
Cairnhill and other branches of the family: Per ardua and 
alta ; of the Kingsmuir branch : Cresco et spero; of the Balla- 
houston branch: Per ardua in collum ; and of the Newny 
branch : \<1 alta virtute. 



SYMBOLISMS OF HANNAY ARMS. 

At — Argent — silver — signifies peace and sincerity. 

Roebuck's heads — Signifies policy, peace and harmony. 

Conped — .Means cut off. 
\z — I Hue — Signifies loyalty and truth. 

( >r — Gold — It denoted generosity and elevation of mind. 

Bells — Denotes one who feared not to signalize his ap- 
proach in either peace or war. 

Cross — Crosslet — Signifies the fourfold mystery of the 
cross. 

Sa — Black — Constancy and grief. 

Crescent — Signifies one who has been enlightened by and 
honored by the gracious aspect of his sovereign. It is also 
borne as the symbol of a "Hope of greater glory." 

Crest — A cross crosslet, fitche, issuing out of a crescent 
sa. 

( Taken from "Bnrke's General Armory," page 453. ed. 
1884) by C. T. Spohr, Chicago, 111. 



THE HOUSE OF HANNA 



Of old this family name was spelled De Hannethe. 
a Hannay, a Hanna, up to about A. D. 1600. It is now Hanna 
and Hannay. All bearing the name are undoubtedly to be 
traced to a lowland clan of Scotland, whose chief had his 
residence in Sorbie Castle. Sir Bernard Burke says, "The 
family of Hannay (originally written a Hannay) is of very 
ancient descent ; and the estate of Sorbie, in Galloway, was 
the scat of the elder branch." Berry ascribes the arms to all 
bearing the name, although spelled in various ways. 

The a Hannays, of Scotland, in common with other pow- 
erful families of Scotland, as the Hackies, the_ McDowells, 
the McCulloughs, and the McClellans, successfully held their 
1 nvii against Norman and Saxon adventurers ; and the es- 
tate of Sorbie remained with the Laird until the seventeenth 
century. 

The allegiance of the clan to Balliol, their bearing against 
the yoke of the Douglasses, and other notes of their history 
may be best gleaned from the works of Sir Andrew Agnew 
and P. H. McKirlie, F. S. A., Scotland. 

The earliest mention known is that in the "Ragnon Roll," 
A. D. 1296, where the name appears "Gilbert de Annethe," 
as inscribed by the Norman clerk of King Edward I, Gilbert 



THE B - F HAXXA. 

g ttore customary in those 

- 

134 rt Chaplain in 1466 : An- 

Archer Body Guard of 

.rwards numerously 

- rhie. He was suc- 
_^_ and r^ 4 
rick, member of the Scotch 

.'.exander. 

-: a large part of his 

[Barreling; at- - bail example 

- • tntil at his death, in 1640. nought 

f the ancient property of 

to trace further the histor; E 

igh 1 say that the name in 

• • • immon in the shires of 

- - Dun barton. Renfrew and in the 

Kirkcudbright. Many branches of the family 

I by their lands, as Kirkdale. Kingsmuir. Gren- 

\<. etc.. in Scotland : and to these families are trace- 

- 1 rule, all bearing the name, wherever scattered. 

• - I the Ian - - - ns to have brought the 

e family to Ireland, with which country, not to 

eir earliest Celtic origin, they had until now 

- we find that the calendar of James I 

a gi n the kin^ to Patrick Hanna. gentleman. 

-ertain lands in that countv and I 



THE SOUSE OF BANNA. 1 3 

Robert Hanna certain lands adjoining, r 'to hold to Pat- 
rick and Robert Hanna forever, a~ of the Castle of Dub- 
lin, in free and common - ge by fealty." This grant 
date 1621, and appears be the first mention of the 
name in Ireland. 

FROM p. HUME BROWN'S HISTORY OF SCOTLAND. 

"In 1O40 there were said to be 40.000 able-bodied Scots in 
the north of Ireland. The plantations in counties Down and 
Antrim were limited in scope in comparison with the ""Great 
Plantation in Ulster."" for which the reign of James I will be 
forever remembered in Ireland. It was on Galloway that the 
greatest grants were bestowed. Almost all the great houses 
of the time are represented : Sir Robert McLellan Laird 
Bomby. who afterwards became Lord Kircudbright ; John 
Murray, of Boughton. one of the secretaries of state : Sir 
Patrick McKie. of Laerg : Dunbar of Mochrum. one of the 
Stewarts of Garlies ; Hannay of Sorbie Castle, and Vance 
of Barnbarrock. 

Then in the next reign King's letters were issued in fa- 
vor of "Robert Hannay. one of the Esquires of our Body." 
confering upon him and upon Thos. Maule the lands and 
mansion of Glancopp. in the County of Wicklow. dated 8th 
May. 1629. 

This same Robert, whose name is variously spelled Han- 
nay. Hanna. and Hannagh. was knighted and also created a 
Baronet of Scotland on 31st March. 1630. and styled 
Mochrum" with destination "Haredibus Marculis quibus 
cumque. 



14 I'll I HOUSE OF BANNA. 

To recur to his Scotch ancestry, he was a relative of 
John, last mentioned of Sorbie, and he was a contemporary 
ami. it is thought, a brother of Patrick Hannay, M. A., some 
time of London, celebrated as a Scotch poet who, in 1619 and 
in !'>_>_>, published a book of poems now rarely seen. A copy 

thai work has been sold at the extraordinary price of 
hinet) -six pounds I $41 * >.< o). 

Sir Robert appears to have settled in Ireland for good. 
On the nth December, [631, he was made clerk of the 
"Xilhelle," in the Irish Court of Exchequer — a newly created 
office, and he surrendered the patent on the 30th May, 1639. 
Hi- daughter lane married Sir Charles Coote, who became 
first Earl of Mountrath ; another daughter married Sir 

>rge Acheson. Sir Robert is said to have been killed 
fighting as a Royalist in the "Rebellion" of 1642. Adminis- 
tration of his will was granted in 1658. His son. Sir Robert, 
succeeded him. Whether like Sir Giarles Coote, he sup- 
ported the Parliament, we do not know, but he evidently fol- 
lowed him in being a partisan of the Restoration intrigue, 
for he was shortly afterwards, on the 19th of March, 1660. 
made Captain of Foot. He resided some time at Moyne, 
( ounty Mayo, and dying was buried beneath the ancient 
church of St. Michau's "in the suburbs" of Dublin on the 
30th of April. 1CS89. 

I lis name spelled different ways (see list of Irish gentry, 
when Cromwell came to Ireland, under the heading:, "The 
Forty-nine Officers) appears among the long lists of Roval- 
1 officers, to whom arrears of pay were due in the mem- 
orable year. A. D. [649. Mis title lay dormant until the vear 



THE HOUSE OF HANNA. 1 5 

1783, when it was claimed by Sir Samuel Hannay, of the 
Kirkdale branch of Sorbie — a gentleman living in London, 
whose male descendants again failed in 1841. 

To recur to early settlers of the family in Ireland. Patrick 
Hannay, sometime of London, received King's letters, dated 
May 2$, 1625, "to have a clerk's place in the Privy Council 
of Ireland," "having done our late dear father good and ac- 
ceptable service beyond the seas;" and on the 27th of June, 
[627, was further appointed "Master of Chancellarie in Ire- 
land." 

The Edinburgh Register, styling him Sir Patrick Han- 
nay, informs us that he died at sea in the year 1629. 

Administration of his effects appears to have been granted 
to his nephew, Andrew Hanna, in 1629; and further, -to 
James Montgomery, in 1630. 

That both in the cases of Patrick and Robert, these vari- 
ous notices refer, from the beginning, to one individual of 
each name, who were brothers, is extremely probable. What 
became of their descendants is not known. 

A "Captain Hanna," this time on the ether side, is men- 
tioned in a contemporary poem on that event as taking part 
in the siege of Derry in 1689. It is possible he may have 
been the Robert Hannay who signed the petition of inhabi- 
tants praying for compensation for property destroyed. How- 
ever this may be the name after this date is found sparsely in 
Dublin, Athlone and Derry. But in two generations later, 
numerous colonies of Scots having come to Ireland, the 
name hibernicized to "Hanna" became more common in 
Down. Arnagh, Antrim, and also reached Tyrone, Derry, 
Donnegal and Monaghan. 



THE HOUSE OF BANNA. 

Many persons of the name Hannett. of an entirely differ- 
ent origin, and chiefly represented in Lecale. County Down. 
became Hanna in the seventeenth century. 

come down to days nearer our own. various spellings 
of the name, as have been already noted, occur in Scotland; 
l»nt more recent settlers of the family of Ireland have pre- 
- tch f( nil, which had hitherto been lost. Such 
are. or were, the "Halliday Hannays." of Bougor; Rev. R. 
Hannay, I >. P.. Belfast; Col. Hannay, of Ballylough. Older 
settlers of the family are represented today by W. T. Hanna. 
I. P., Whithouse, Donegal: Rev. Hugh Hanna. D. D.. 
Belfast. Such also were the late Rev. Prof. Samuel Hanna, 
of Belfast, father of Rev. William Hanna. D. D., Edinburgh,- 
author of "Life of Dr. Chalmers." his father-in-law. and 
whi - - ■ . f - din Chalmers Hanna. of Edinburgh, was living- 
in 1 88 1. 

No. 2. Hanna. of Xewry. County Down. 
Arms — Same as Hanna Xo. i. 

This old family, whose ancestor held a command under 
Gustavus Adolphus in the Bohemian war of 1620. traces 
to the Scottish stem of '"Hannay" because established a cen- 
tury and a half ago at Xewry. They acquired property in 
County Down by intermarriage with the Wallaces, of Cro- 
baneg, and their descent from thence is as follows: 

1. William Hanna (born about 1751. died 1807) mar- 
ried Jane, daughter of Robert Wallace. Esq.. of Xewry, and 
granddaughter of Tames Wallace. Esq.. of Crobaneg, by his 
wife Anne Ross. Their children were: 



THE HOUSE OF HAXXA. \J 

I. Samuel born about 1759. died October 12. 1798, in 
London. 



Jane married John Bradshaw, Esq. 

Robert died unmarried in China. 
William married Wilhelmina Stewart, of Wilmot. 
Mary married Samuel Townxley, Esq.. of Newry. 
James married daughter of William Ogle, Esq., of 



Newry. 

7. Margaret married (first) Barnard Crose. Esq.. and 
(second) William Connelly, Esq. 

8. George, last survivor of the familv in Newry. was 
living in 1820. He died unmarried. 

Samuel's eldest son. William, married in 1610, Louise 
Maria Chomley, and their eldest son, Samuel, married Anne, 
daughter of Rev. James Fitzgerald. Their eldest son, Wil- 
liam. Captain R. A., married Iza, daughter of W. Lawless, 
Esq., of Ardeen, Blackrock, County Dublin. 

From Leslie Stephen's "Dictionary of National Biogra- 
phy." vol. 24, page 304. from information supplied by Cap- 
tain W. Hanna, R. A., and other sources. 

Patrick Hannay (died 1629), poet, was probably the 
third son of Alexander Hannay. of Kirkdale. in the stewartry 
of Kircudbrightshire. His grandfather. Donald Hannay. of 
Sorbie. had distinguished himself in the border warfare and 
"•well was known to the English by his sword." Early in 
Tames I reign Patrick Hannay, with a cousin Robert (creat- 



[8 THE II' 'i S] OF EANNA. 

a baronet of Nova Scotia in 1629), came to the English 
Court, and was favorabl) noticed by Queen Anne. 

About [620 both Patrick and Robert received grants of 
land in Count) Longford, Inland, and in 1621 Patrick visit- 
ed Sweden. After his return he received a clerkship in the 
office of the Irish Privy Council in Dublin. Attempts, which 
for a time were successful, were made to oust him from this 

t, but Charles 1 reinstated him in [625 on the ground of 
his having done our late father 1 i. e., James II) good and 
acceptable service beyond seas, with great charge and danger 
of his life, and bavin- been recommended to us by our dear 
mother. 

In [627 he became "Master of Chancery" in Ireland. He 
id to have died at sea in 1629. 

( >ne of his works. "Songs and Sonnets;"' contains a 
dedicatory epistle to a soldier under whom Hannay had 
served abroad, "Sir Andrew Gray, knight, colonel of a Foot 
Regiment and General of Artillerie to Prince Ferdinand, 
King of Bohemia." From one of the poems in "Songs and 
Sonnets" we learn that Hannay had resided for some time in 
the neighborhood of Craydon, Surrey. 

A fac-simile reprint of the 1622 collection of Patrick 
Hannay's poems was issued in 1875 by the Hunterian Club, 
with a memoir of the author by David Laing. Mr. Heath 
has a fine co]>\ of the rare original. 

From William Anderson's "Scottish Nation." vol. 2, page 
450 (published by A. Fullerton & Co., Edinburgh. 1861- 
[877). 



THE HOUSE OF HANNA. IO, 

Hannay, a surname originally aHannay and also met with 
as de Anneth, belonging to an old family in Galloway, sup- 
posed to be of Scandinavian origin, which is first mentioned 
about the end of the thirteenth century but without any 
lands named as. belonging to it at that period. 

Their arms occur in the celebrated MSS. Volume of Em- 
blazonments of Sir Daniel Lindsay of the Mount, Lord Lion 
King at Arne-Sorbie Place. The seat of the family from the 
reign of James IV ( 1482-1513) was anciently a tower of 
some strength, and is now a picturesque ruin surrounded by 
wood, about a mile east of the village of Sorbie. The land 
of Sorbie at present belongs to the Earl of Galloway, having 
passed to that house through a marriage. 

Patrick Hannay, M. A., of the Sorbie family, published 
in 1622 a rare book of curious poems which once had a repu- 
tation, but are now very rare, and almost forgotten. He was 
grandson of Donald Hannay of Sorbie, and is supposed to 
have employed his sword in the service of the unfortunate 
but high-spirited Queen of Bohemia, the daughter of James 
Yf and wife of the Elector Palatine. 

These poems secured him some celebrity, and among his 
eulogists were John Marshall, Robert Hannay, Robert Alane, 
J. M. C. and others. The following is a specimen of the 
laudatory epistles which were dedicated to him : The Goldus, 
therein referred to, is the celebrated Golgacus, the leader of 
the confederated Caledonians against the Romans. In Scot- 
tish history he is known as Corbredus Goldus. The poem is 
given as originally printed. 

To His Much Respected Friend, Master Patrick Han- 
nay: 



20 J HE HOUSE OF HANNA. 

"Hannay, thj worth bewrayes well whence thou'rt sprunge; 

\iul that that honored name thou dost not wrong. 
As if from Sorby's stock no branch could sprout, 
But should with ripening time bear golden fruit. 
Tin ancestors were ever worthy found, 
Else ( raldus grave had graced no Hannay's ground. 
Tin father's father, Donald, well was knowne 

ro the English by bis sword, but thou art shown, 
l'.\ inn (times changing) Hannays are 

Active in arts of worth, be't peace or warre. 

on in virtue, aftertimes will tell, 
None but a Hannay could have done so well." 

King ( raldus (that worthy), who so bravely fought with 
the Romans, lies buried in the lands of Patrick Hannay, of 
Kirkdale, in Galloway. — Jo Marshall. 

Among Patrick Hannay's works were the following: Two 
Elegies on the Death of Queen Anne: with Epitaphs, Lon- 
don, 1619; "Happy Husband," London, 1619; "Philomel," 
London, 1622; Poems, 5 parts. 

Tn tbe thirteenth century the clan of Hannay built and 
occupied a castle since known as Castle Sorbie, still stand- 
ing, but in half ruins, on the waters of Mull of Galloway, 
in Wigton, southern half of Ayrshire. 

The Hannay family came into prominence about the time 
of the War of the Roses, and some of the occupants of the 
Castle of Sorbie wielded a commanding influence during that 
period. The Hannays continued to occupy and own Castle 
Sorbie until the close of the seventeenth century, when the 



THE HOUSE OF HANNA. 21 

male members having" all emigrated to Ireland, it passed, 
through intermarriage, to Sir Alexander Stewart, of Garlics, 
a grandson of Sir Alexander Stewart, who had married Mar- 
garet, daughter and heir of Patrick Hannay of Sorbie. This 
Sir Alexander, who now came into possession of the seat 
of the Hannays, was in great favor with James VI, who 
knighted him in 1540 at the coronation of his consort, Queen 
Anne of Denmark. Sir Alexander married, first, Christian, 
daughter of Sir William Douglass, and, second, the lady Eliz- 
abeth Douglass, daughter of David, Earl Angus, and widow 
of seventh Lord Maxwell, Earl of Morton. He died Octo- 
ber 9, 1596, leaving five children. His son and heir, Sir Al- 
exander Stewart, was given the title of Baron of Garlics in 
1607 and in 1623 made Earl of Galloway. He married Grisel, 
daughter of Sir John Gordon of Lochinvar ; died in 1649, 
leaving a daughter and two sons. He was succeeded by his 
son, James Stewart, second Lord Galloway, who, while his 
father lived, was crested baronet of Nova Scotia. He mar- 
ried in 1642 Nicolas, daughter of Sir Robert Grier of Grier- 
son, M. P., and had two sons and four daughters. His old- 
est son, Alexander Stewart, third Lord Galloway, married 
Mary, daughter of James, second Earl of Oueensbury, and 
had six sons and two daughters. The oldest son, Alexander, 
became fourth Earl of Galloway. The second son, James, 
became fifth Earl of Galloway. The third son, John, was 
a Brigadier General and died unmarried at Castle Sor- 
bie in 1748. The fourth son, Andrew, was killed in the 
Darien expedition in 1699. William and Robert died un- 
married. Castle Sorbie went to the third son, John Stewart ; 



I III-. HOUSE OF HANNA. 



was not occupied b\ any of the Stewart family after the 
ith of its owner in 1788. It is still owned by the heirs of 
the Earl of 1 Jalloway, all of whom are descendants of Patrick 
1 lann;i\ of ( lastle Sorbie. 



CHAPTER I. 

The American llannas are of Scotch-Irish origin. The 
original Scotch ancestor was a native of Galloway, Scot- 
land, and settled in County Down, Ireland, where his sons, 
Robert and Hugh, after the restoration of Charles II, becami 
obnoxious to the favorites of that king because of the activ- 
ity and aggressiveness the father had shown to Charles 1. To 
better their condition and escape persecution they sought a 
home in the American colonies — then the asylum of that 
class — and settled in Wilmington, Delaware. Robert had 
two sons, Joseph and John (we have been unable to learn 
if there were more children). John went from there to Vir- 
ginia and lived near Ruffle's Church. His wife's maiden 
name was Mary Ervin (of English family). Joseph settled 
in South Carolina. Laurens District, whither the son, daugh- 
ter and widow of John followed him. Not far from their 
home was a magnificent spring, and the Colonists built a 
church near by and named it "Rocky Spring Church." The 
battle of Cowpens was fought on the plantation of Joseph 
Hanna. One of his sons followed his cousin, Robert Hanna. 
to Indiana Territory, and settled in what is now Union 
county. To distinguish him from Robert's son John he was 
nicknamed "Long" John Hanna. He was a Hercules in size 
and heigjit. He had six sons, four of whom married four 

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- 

gr gton Hanna • called 

the old homestead 

_ wealthy and 

fine clothing, fine equips-. 

■dern improvements. He erected 

in the Presbyterian Cemetery 

jusand dollars. Jo- 

until his death. He 

Ic for his s. Becoming 

for he was very old 

there a rattlesnake bit him. He 

he house. His daughter 

-jleton and Polly married Y 

- the Hannas. Temple- 
became related. In later years they 

lanna history. 
:hat came to In 
ill proceed to take up the history 

bert Hat Galloway. Scot- 

Ervin. of English family, about 

~ ._'. They had two children. Robert and Jane. 

horn were born three chil- 
John ; ; husband hav- 

ars, then mar- 
and they ha children — Jonathan 



THE HOUSE OF HA.N _ : 

William Neugent was a blacksmith by trade, and 
South Carolina, leaving a large family. Benjami: 
t removed to Alabama in company with the 

McDades; purchased negro slaves and by farming a 
a fortune. He died unmarried. John Xeugent emigrated to 
the "White Water." Indiana, and - irning r a 

while there among his relatives, he i :o Parke cor.: 

died near the town of Montezur 

PARKS-LITTLE JOHN. 

James Parks was a native of Prii ward ( 

■ginia. In earlv manhood he was united in marr g 
Miss Littlejohn, a descendant of th 
of Ireland. Their farm] - si six chil 

James. Joseph. Ezekiei. Catharine. Mary and Margar 

Catharine married Andrew Wallace, oi Prince E 

nty, Virginia. 

Mary manic ert Hanna. of tht - 

Margaret, the youngest, wedded Douglass and 

they in company with Andrew Wallace and Catharine 
Kentucky. Joseph and Ezek _ 

rgia. 

James spent his - 

Mattie Calwell was a niece ; Parks, and 

united in marriac alhoun. I - n, J ' *. Calh 

arose I ,;reat prominerj through his nullifi- 

cation. 

\ twithstanding the Park- family nsisl 
members, including the parents, none of them 



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City, n > 1 00.00 per month (paid 

- . with ' and a horse kept. In the summer 

Helena City. Montana. 

g a practical knowledge of 

e> \ ith archaeology he associated himself 

the S Silver and Copper Mining Company, 

Helena City, and for two years searched 

placer mines in the mountain districts. 

" he returned to the "States" via Fort 

wn the Missouri River for a distance of 2.140 

r at Yankton. Dakota, thence by 

He early in life developed a fond- 

-earch and for the last forty years 

n an untiring collector of archaeological and other 

specimens from all over the United 

and from many place= in Australia and 

has e of the most valuable and unique collec- 

n Indiana. He has long been a contributor for the 

inch of his writing being devoted to pioneer life and 

character, and has been connected as editor and solicitor for 

y publications. In the capacity of circulating manager 

represented the Brookville Democrat. Laurel Review. 

lie Times and News, Connersville Examiner, the 

Richmond Evening and Weekly Item, the Xew Castle Demo- 

Ireensburg Xew Era. the Rushville Jacksonian and 

at present is on the Brazil Daily and Weekly Democrat. 

'ically he is a Democrat. Kit is not an aspirant for polit- 

- leisure hours to the 
ring of re thorouf know! - ience and the 




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CHAPTER II. 

Early on a bright sunny morning in August, \j< 15. four 
persons could have been seen walking slowly and thought- 
fully along the pathway (or trail as it was then called) that 
led from their home through field, clearing- and forest up to 
the old Duffles Church. The two young men preceded an 
elderly lady and a voting girl. The young men were smartly 
dressed in clothes made of imported cloth, and the very white 
hands and untanned face of one bespoke seclusion from sun 
and outdoor toil. The other looked more toil-worn, but each 
bore the impress of college life and education. When they 
reached the crest of a small eminence they all intuitively 
paused at once and the more rugged of the two young men 
said : '"Jeff, here is a view that brings back to my mind the 
good times we had at William and Mary College. I can 
almost see the boys scampering across the meadow in our 
grand foot races." 

"It is very like, very like the old race track, and I. too, 
can almost imagine I see the boys, with you, Robin, several 
bounds ahead, as you always were, and little Tom Jeff pot- 
tering along somewhere in the chase." 

"Ah, yes. but poor little Tom Jeff never pottered in the 
class. I can see him yet holding on to its head like grim 
death. Now, for my part. I always thought tail holds pretty 

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g : a ha ! ha ! and slapping him 

ir ring of jovial 

• --he contin- 

ide view of this lovely 

g its rippling cob 

- ■ - in the sunlight 

nd we catch a glimr - : the 

t of gratitude we owe to our 

into the handsome face of 

much fear that I shall give a 

rginia home is 

me after all." 

Ah! Robin Hanna, it is a heartsome 

I have known my sweetest joys 

The ties that bind my heart to Virginia 

- than an; ing people know. 

n the new home and the new peo- 

". live much upon the mem- 

, bid fare- 

irch." 

ill the • nation with us," said 

- happy in our new Carolina home 

. - - • ■ 

Robin, "and I much fear 

• be indu And he gave his 

mat she quickly understood. Then 

kly and soon they came to 

h. 



- 

Coming from the oppc tioo - 

and a : ::ng girl. followed by a bk 

•- :r. 2 r.r.t. -.r-.-: e.'_ cr:-:~e: hirst. 7:r :ht iris: :~: : 
Tames Parks would have no other 

ring an nngroomed borse arc 
r daughter tc mom 
When the pedes: altere d the 

Robin and Jefferson tnrr. 
-chmen who 

3ther anc rir_g 

:hrr : ' ) ladies 1 g nto the 
ed them to dismount and was caring for the hois 

went in the elder ladies shook han fs. « g each 

others- 5 : er Parks" an - tr Hanna-~ c 

^ ed and nodded and greeted each other > 
and "Mar There are always those who g 
and then they have the advantage 

5 on th:- ?ion our pair 

s the ole ladies entered the church _ 

tred that thr 
wa' £ that but :tn the bank near 

by. Two s: ladies c sz -he pc 

by the spring. They. too. stopper 

CJurd ma: - eld ov 
en. now joir 
n to the s 

Robin had dra- to one sice sr.c 

ep and earnest eon\-ersatie- Ter. The 

S ion was ; . Trier 



F HANNA. 

I that the preacher and churchmen had 

ind gone inside, and they took that 

so they too went up and 

Three there were of that congre- 

that never more would they pass in or out 

g 

w to a cl< - - -ermons did in those 

ssarily consumed a good length of 

i to call upon two or three of the 

up prayers, and sometimes a brother got 

and then the congregation had to 

• 5. Then. too. time must be alio; 

lies of the hymn and the peo- 

re he proceeded to read the next 

they would sing those, and sometimes 

. as it happened on this occas- 

- .ected containing nine stanzas of eight 

ich. The} sang it through. Then came a moment's 

—a crucial moment for Robin Hanna. The minister 

". piece of paper that lay by the side of his 

- Ef his 1 slowly he said : "I herein hold 

a certificate to three of our esteemed members, which I do 

Then he read from the paper — 

CERTIFICATE. 

at Mary Hanna. widow, her son Robert and her 

- me years orderly members of this 

have behaved hon soberly, Christianly : 

church censure. Thev have 



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been admitted to sealing" ordinances with us. and are now rec- 
ommended to Christian communion wherever Providence 
may order their lot. Is certified at Buffies, Prince Edward 
unty, Virginia, August 30. 1 ~< 5. 

"By Me. 
"Rich'd Saxky. R. D. M. 

As he read Robin looked straight across into the face of 
Man - Parks, and as the words fell slowly and distinctly upon 
her anxious ears he saw the rosy color leaving cheek and 
br< iw, and when the reading was finis 1 - it still and was 

as white as a marble statue, gazing fixedly into his face, that 
was as pale as that of the dead. It seemed to them for a mo- 
ment that they had heard their death knell ringing. But in 
that anguished look each had read the unmistakable sincerity 

heir love. 

When the minister had finished reading he said. "Now, 
brothers and sisters, you have heard the reading and if any- 
one has aught to prefer that will bar the issuing of this rec- 
ommendation you will please make it known now. or ever 
after hold your peace." The silence that followed was op- 
pressive. Then raising his hands the minister said: "Let us 

k to the Lord and be dismissed." They all arose and with 
bowed heads they received his benediction. 

When Marv Parks was oassing out of the door Robin 
Hanna stepped up to her side and together they wall the 

upping-block. where the slave was holding the horses ; and 
as they went he told her more of their near departure. Then 
he helped her to mount, while the slave was seating her 
mother. 



'This is an exact copy of the original certificate. — Author. 



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The) rode awa) and Mary'? pent-up feelings found vent 
in a »us flow of tears as she reiterated the thought. 

"Robin - away!" "Robin is going away!*' That 

week the) went away, into that newer country, South Caro- 
lina, and whether Robert saw .Mary before they went I have 
not been informed, but it is quite likely that he did, for there 
have been a positive understanding effected be- 
tween them. As soon as possible after becoming permanently 
settled in their new home Robert returned to Virginia and 
bore his Man back with him, a young, confiding, trusting 

le. And h>'\\ could they know when they joined their for- 
tunes and their lives together that out of their house would 
come those who would be leaders of men. and makers of laws 
that bind a mighty nation together. After arriving in their 
new home they ingratiated themselves into the friendships of 
the proud old families of the Butlers, the Pinckneys, the 
< interns and the Grimsevs. 



CHAPTER III. 

A great turmoil of excited anxiety prevailed throughout 
the length and breadth of the American Colonies. The op- 
pressive acts i if the British Parliament had aroused a spirit 
of resistance in the Colonies which was stirring the people 
from Massachusetts to the Carolinas. The soft white hand of 
"Little Tom Jeff." the college friend of Robert Hanna, did a 
mighty thing. It wrote the Declaration of American Inde- 
pendence, one of the sublimest political documents ever writ- 
ten by the hand of man. That alone should be sufficient to 
stamp the name of Thomas Jefferson with immortality. 
Robert Hanna had been regarded as a most loyal subject of 
the Mother Country, and therefore had been appointed by 
the King of England as Surveyor General of South Caro- 
lina and had surveyed the boundary line between the Caro- 
linas prior to the beginning of the Revolutionary War. By 
some fortunate chance John Adams's "Dissertation on the 
Crown and Eeudal Laws" had founded its way into his scant 
library, and poring over it it added fuel to the fire of his 
patriotism. 

When the crisis came he threw off his allegiance to the 
Crown. This so exasperated the Tories that a price was set 
on his head and during the seven years' struggle he 
slept but two nights in his own home. When the call was 

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mad< for troops he was among the first to respond. Once 
more Man shed bitter tears, for "Robin had gone away." 
She, like hundreds of other brave, courageous women of 
those times, nerved herself to the arduous task of taking care 
< if the family and pr< >perty. 

Robert I lamia fought from South Carolina to Vermont. 
He was in the battle of Cowpens, which was fought on his 
Uncle Joseph's plantation ; also at Bennington, King's Moun- 
ta'n and oilier battles. He raptured a sword from one of 
["arleton's officers. (It is still possessed by Mr. Pinckney 
llanua. of Brookville, Indiana.) Owing to the prominent 
position of Robert Manna in the community great care had 
to be exercised in every movement made and every sentence 
uttered. For not all the Colonists were Patriots. Some there 
were like Robert Manna, who had been nurtured to show 
fealty to the ( Town, and despite all oppression they remained 
al to King George. Seme were willful and some were 
witless spies upon their Patriot neighbors; and when the 
British troops wen passing through the country they were 
often directed by their loyal friends to the places where the 
Patriots had goods, or stock, or provisions concealed. One 
day a Lieutenant of General Tarleton's and a squad of sol- 
diers rode up to Mary Hanna's door. On seeing them she 
went out on the porch to receive them, followed by two of 
her children. The Lieutenant demanded to know the where- 
abouts of their stork. Seeing the little boy was about to an- 
swer, she said sharply, "Don't tell, John." That angered 
the officer and he ordered one of the soldiers to flog the hoy 
until he told. Bui the intrepid little woman quickly brought 
forward the hand that was concealed behind her and dis- 
played a dangerous-looking hunting knife, and defied the 



THE HOUSE OF HANNA. 39 

man at his peril to touch the child. The officer was so im- 
pressed with the little woman's braver) that he counter- 
manded the order and, with a salute which Mary returned 
with a courtesx . he rode away without further molestation, 
leaving the little family in a flutter of excitement. Their 
childish imagination took wild flight and each little one told 
how they could have served the British if — and if — and if. 

Presently Jimmy missed one and he asked, "Mother, 
where's Margaret?" Struck with fright the mother bade 
them hunt her instantly, and a general search was instituted 
for the little one. They raised the bed-valance and peeped 
under, opened the closet door, raised the lid of the old chest, 
drew the curtains aside from the fire-place, but no Mar- 
garet ; they called aloud, but no answer. Then John and his 
mother ran to the barn, and James and little Mary went to 
the corn-pen. The search was futile and they all returned 
to the house. Then they heard a little voice faintly calling, 
and running in the direction whence the sound came, the 
mother found her little girl curled up in the Dutch oven. 

After the close of the Revolutionary War several of the 
old Colonies revived their claims to lands granted by the 
charters previously obtained from the Crown. Those Colo- 
nies had been transformed into sovereign states, and each ex- 
pressed a desire to possess more territory. There were be- 
sides other claims set forth, such as for extra services and 
i rverfull contingents of men and munitions for the war then 
just closed. Virginia alone claimed her lands not only on ac- 
count of former charter rights, but by the undeniable right 
of conquest. She had furnished men and money to conquer 
and hold the territory which she called her own. 

In 1779 Virginia opened a land office, for the sale of her 
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western lands. This act was objected to by other states, sev- 
eral of which regarded the vacant regions in the West as a 
common fund for the future payment of the expenses of the 
war in which the Colonies were involved. 

The United Stan- took the ground that these lands had 
been the propert) of the Crown and naturally fell to the Gen- 
eral I lovernment as the conquering power. It was contended 
that it was unjust for the few to he benefited to the exclusion 
of the many. 

Upon the opening of the land office by Virginia Con- 
ss passed a joint resolution earnestly recommending that 
state to reconsider her actions, and to enforce this recom- 
mendation Colonel Broadhead was stationed in the Western 
country with a sufficient force to prevent intrusion upon the 
o round. The controversy concerning the Western 
lands for a long time darkened the prospects of the American 
Union. It retarded the ratification of the Articles of Con- 
federation : it greatly augmented the emharrassments of Con- 
gress in carrying on the war, and cheered the enemies of 
America by revealing a source of discord among the mem- 
bers of the Union. Congress appealed to the interested states 
t.. avert the danger that threatened the common cause. Xew 
York was the first to respond, in 1780. by instructing her 
delegates to concede to the demands of Congress. Virginia 
relinquished her claim in 1783. Massachusetts in 1785. and 
last of all. Connecticut, in 1786. In 1787 Congress made an 
ordinance or body of law for the government of this North- 
west Territory. That ordinance forbade the holding of 
es in (he territory, and granted entire religious freedom 
t" every settler. 



THE HOUSE OF HAXXA. 4 1 

So far as the civilized world was concerned the title of 
the Qnited States was now clear; but the rights of the Indi- 
ans were yet to be acquired. 

On the 21st of January, 17K5. several tribes combined to 
dispose of their interests, which was done by the treaty of 
Fort Mcintosh. The lands obtained were in the southern 
and western parts of Ohio, and were equal to about three- 
fourths of the present area of the state. 

The treaty of Greenville was concluded on the 3d day of 
August. 1795. By this compact the United States gained a 
tract of country west and south of the lands obtained by the 
treaty of Fort Mcintosh. The western boundary of this 
newly acquired land was a direct line from Fort Recovery 
to a point on the ( )hio River opposite the Kentucky River. 
This line is the well known "boundary line'' passing about 
midway through Franklin Count}-. Indiana, and not far west 
of the toum of Brookznlle. Other important grants of terri- 
tory were acquired by various treaties from this time for- 
ward to 1840. The lands in Franklin County are parts of 
these grand trusts, as follows : 

All lands between the State line and the "boundary line" 
are in what was called "Wayne's Purchase," obtained at the 
treaty of Greenville in 1795. 

The triangle in the southwest part of the county is a 
part of the "Grouseland Purchase." made by treaty at Vin- 
cennes in 1805. 

The lands immediately west of the "boundary line" are 
of the "Twelve Mile Purchase." 

The remaining portion, still farther west, is in what was 
known as the "New Purchase." which was gained by treaty 



mi: HOUSE OF HANNA. 

at St. Mary's, Ohio, in [818. This treaty, made by Jona- 
than Jennings, Lewis ( ass and Benjamin Park, extinguished 
all of the Indian titles in Indiana except a few reservations, 
the principal of which was the Miami Reserve. This treaty 
opened the interior of the state to settlement. 

i Mi the 7th of May, [800, an act of Congress was ap- 
proved as follows: "That from and after the 4th day of 
Jul) next, all that part of the territory of the United States 
which lies westward of the line beginning at the Ohio, oppo- 
site the mouth of Kentucky River and running thence to 
Fori Recovery, and thence north until it shall intersect the 
territorial line between the United States and Canada, shall 
for the purpose of temporary government, constitute a sepa- 
rate territory, and be called the Indiana Territory." 

The treat\ of 1 7< >5 (Greenville) was the signal for a 
"grand rush" to the interior lands of western Ohio and along 
the southeastern border of Indiana, as at present denned. 
The current of In ime-seekers and explorers appears generally 
to have reached the territory of what is now Franklin County 
from the direction of Cincinnati. January, 1789, was the date 
of the layin-out of Cincinnati. John Cleves Symmes landed 
at North Bend on the 2d of February. 1789, and erected a 
shanty on the high crest of the left bank of the Great Miami 
and commenced to execute his scheme for founding there a 
city, with two water fronts. 

The lands west of the Great Miami were placed on sale 
at Cincinnati on the first Monday in April, i8ot. and in the 
latter part of the year 1804 the first lands were entered on the 
easl fork of White Water near the "boundary line." In the 
spring of [805 the ''Carolina settlers" took permanent posses- 



THE HOUSE OF HANNA. 43 

sion of their homes. At that time ( [805) the only mill for 
all the upper White Water country was on the edge of Ohio. 
owned by Mr. Thomas Smith, of Kentucky, so that the Caro- 
lina settlers had to travel twenty-five miles to get their Hour 
and meal. 

Who were the "Carolina Settlers?" 

It is narrated that soon after the arrival of the emigrants, 
that their supph of breadstuff was nearly exhausted, and all 
dt the most able-bodied males in the settlement were busily 
occupied in clearings and the only available one to go to 

mill was Graem Manna, then a lad of eleven years. So the 
grist was gotten ready and when the little fellow came to 
start his hat was missing. A general search was instituted 
hut all to no avail. It seemed to he gone for good. lint 
nothing daunted, the hoy mounted the horse behind the sack 
and, hare-headed and hare-footed, he went on his long lonely 
ride along the trail through the dense forest to the Ohio mill. 
Surely the boy was endowed with a fearless courage else he 
could not thus have dared the dangers from wild beasts 
and savage Indians. But he made the fifty-mile ride in 
safety. And the Aval is a noble record of youthful heroism. 



CHAPTER l\. 

Vboul tin. year 1798 the talk of the new Northwest Ter- 
ritory became more glowing throughout the older states and 
some who were already dissatisfied with the system of slavery 
existing in the southern states, became fired with the desire 
to emigrate to a land where they could have a form of gov- 
ernment more congenial to their desires. Therefore, an 
emigrant compan) was organized in Laurens District, South 
Carolina, with Robert Hanna. Sr., and Robert Templeton 
a- leaders. Their followers were John Templeton, William 
gan, George Leviston, John Hanna. John Logan, Joseph 
Manna. John Ewing and Robert Swan. 

In the spring of the year 1801 this little band of intrepid 
pioneers, accompanied by their wives and children, started 
on their toilsome journey to the new Northwest or "Wayne's 
Purchast ." 

Late in the fall they arrived in the .Miami Vallev and 
made a halt on the "Dry Fork" of the Miami River at a 
poinl easl of the present town of Harrison, Ohio. There 
the\' remained while the lands in the western part of 
"Wayne's Purchase" were being surveyed and prepared for 
market, which was accomplished by 1802-1803. 

According to the law then in force no less than a whole 

ion could be entered. Early in the year 1804 the land 

I Hi 



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office reduced the amount of land which could be entered to 
one-eighth of a section, or more, and also reduced the price 
and provided for payments in installments. 

During their sojourn on "Dry Fork" they had ample 
time to explore the country which was soon to be opened for 
settlement. 

They then discovered the picturesque valley of the east 
fork of White Water, with its rich bottom lands, heavy tim- 
ber and luxuriant vegetation, nourished by countless springs 
of pure water; also the abundance and variety of stone, 
gravel and sand ; to which was added an abundance of game, 
which was highly appreciated, for the spoils of the chase 
were depended upon for the major part of their food. 

In the summer of 1804 the "advance party," with Robert 
Hanna and Robert Templeton as leaders, again returned to' 
the "promised land" to prepare the dwellings for their fam- 
ilies. 

The most direct route was selected and "blazed." and 
for many years afterward was known as the "Carolina 
trace." 

Tt commenced on Lees Creek at the farm of Mathias 
Brown, thence across the country to a point a little west of 
the present village of Mount Carmel, and from there along or 
near the Big Cedar Creek to where the Big Cedar Church 
now stands, when it took a northwesterly course over the up- 
land until it reached the valley of the south branch of Tem- 
pleton Creek (at that time not named), thence down the 
creek from which point it crossed south to the East Fork 
of White Water River, and near where the dwelling of Mrs. 
Keturah Templeton is situated. This "trace," or path, was 



4<i l HI. HOUSE OF HANNA. 

the Indian trail that crossed from the Great Miami to 
the White Water country, over as much of the way as was 
practicable to follow. 

Immediately after their arrival the party commenced 
building cabin- on their selected sites. 

( >n September 24. 1804. Robert Ilanna received his deed 
for the following located land: 

•The southeast quarter of Section 28, Town 10, Range 2, 
and the northeast quarter of Section 33, Town 10, Range 2." 

( >n ( Ictober 10. 1804. Robert Templeton entered the 
northwest quarter of Section 28. 

December 4. 181)4. William Logan entered the northeast 
quarter of Section 28. 

John Logan entered on the east side of the river. Sec- 
tion «,. Town 9. Range 1. also Section 10. Town 9. Range 1. 
the west side Section <). Town 9, Range 2. 

John Templeton entered Section 4, Town 10. Range 2. 

Robert Ilanna. Jr.. entered Section 28. Town 10, Range 
2. \ the meridian line. Sold to John Nugent Decem- 

ber 14. 1814. 

Three cabins were simultaneously begun. They were 
those of Robert Templeton. Robert Hanna and William Lo- 
gan. The first one finished was that of Robert Templeton 
which stood very near the brick house that was built later 
on. These cabins were at intervals, from the first above 
mentioned along the East Fork up to where Brownsville is 
n< »w located. Robert Hanna's cabin was next finished. His 
cabin stood where the house of the late David Graem Hanna 
v stands. This cabin was a favorite resort for emigrants 
and neighbors for many years. 



•i in: BOUSE OF 11 \.\.\.\. 47 

John Ilanna, eldest son of Robert Hanna, built his cabin 

on the farm now owned and occupied by A. L. Carter. A 
roadway, only, divides it from the Hanna homestead. John 
was in his younger days one of the few who could play the 
violin, hence his services as "fiddler" were in demand fre- 
quently. About the year 1810 he was elected one of the As- 
sociate Judges of Franklin County. Later in life he removed 
to [ndianapolis, where he died. 

Joseph Hanna settled on the East Fork near the mouth 
of Hanna's Creek and for him the stream was named. He 
was a noted politician and an advocate of hard money. IK' 
died in Carroll Count}-, Indiana, at a ripe old age. The claim 
of Rohert Hanna, Jr.. was located on the west side of the 
river directly opposite the Hanna homestead. 

John Templeton. the son-in-law of Robert Hanna, Sr., 
settled one mile south of the village of Quakertown, Union 
County. His son, John F. Templeton, now owns the farm. 
A daughter of this pioneer was the first white female child 
horn on the East Fork. This child was Catherine H. Tem- 
pleton. born July 16, T805. She became the wife of George 
Xewland. who is said to have run a flatboat loaded with 
whiskey and other produce from Dunlapsville to New Or- 
leans. John Templeton was a member of the Territorial Leg- 
islature when the act to form two new counties was passed in 
i8tt, and is said to have given the name Franklin to the 
southern portion. John Logan was horn in Ireland Janu- 
ary it, 1758. Pie settled on the west side of East Fork oppo- 
site Robert Templeton's purchase. The farm is still in the 
family name. 

William Logan was born in Ireland August 2. 1762. He 



i Hi HOUSE OF HANNA. 

e to America with his father and settled in South Caro- 
lina, and came with the colon) to Fairfield. He was a sol- 
dier in the Lighl I [orse Brigade in the latter part of the Rev- 
olutionary War. His cabin was built one-half mile south of 
Fairfield village. An old beech tree by the roadside still 
plays the mark of fire. It was burnt by the campfire 
they used for cooking while the cabin was being- built. 

fohn Ewing's cabin was on the west bank of East Fork 
near the Shawnee Ford. Mr. Ewing was the first Justice of 
the Peace in the county. George Lewiston settled two miles 
north of 1 hinlapsville. 

Robert Swan settled on Silver Creek, on land now owned 
by David Hewitt. The following incident has been, pre- 
served by the descendants of the Carolina colony. It will 
serve to show the kind of energy these pioneers were pos- 
d of. The party was engaged on Joseph Hanna's cabin. 
one "i the last t" he built. It was nearly finished when night 
came on and with it a heavy tall of snow. Having no shel- 
ter, they concluded to finish the cabin by fire light. Accord- 

ly they built immense bonfires, by the light of which they 
rived the clapboards and roofed the dwelling, which occu- 
the greater pari "i" the night and when the work was 
done the snow was ten inches dee]'. 

During the winter of [804-05, when the party had re- 
turned to the Dn Fork, the Indians occupied the cabin of 
Robert Templeton. During their tenancy an Indian woman 

■'. and the Indians were about in burv her under the cabin 

>r but wen- prevented from doing so by French traders 
who were passing by. 

The firsl schoolhouse "ti the Easl Fork was erected be- 



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tween the farms of Robert Hanna and Robert Templeton, 

and the second one was built near the Sims Cemetery, now 
in Union County. The first teacher was Thomas Harvey. 
The building was used for church purposes by the Baptists 
and others in those early days. The first marriage in the new 
colony was that of John Reed and Mary, daughter of Robert 
Templeton. 

Robert Hanna, St., planted the first apple orchard. He 
procured the trees in Lawrenceburg. This is supposed to 
have been in 1806. Two of these trees are yet alive (1906) 
and every year have borne some fruit. They are seedlings. 
That the varieties of apples had high sounding names in those 
days as well as in these will be seen by the following list : 
"The Broken Limb," "Pap's Tree." "Rusty Coat." "John 
( Mell's Tree." "Mammy's Sweet Tree." "Aunt Jinny's Tree." 
"Choak-'em-Stiff" and "Belly-Ache." And we warrant that 
any of the frn it-hungry pioneers would have been willing to 
pit their fruit trees against our high sounding "Duchess of 
Oldenburg," "Crown Prince" and "King's Jewel" of today. 

Immediately after the "setting out" of this orchard Mr. 
John Dickerson arrived from Xew Jersey, bringing with him 
a supply of young fruit trees that formed the nucleus of an 
apple orchard. He also brought two thoroughbred fine 
horses, "Monitor" and "Selim" respectively. Afterward the 
former sold for $500, a big price for a horse in those days. 

Mr. Oliver Templeton. of Brookville. still holds as a sa- 
cred relic the old tar bucket that hung on their wagon dur- 
ing their pilgrimage to the "New Land." 



CHAPTER V. 

LAYING OU1 THE ["OWN OF BROOKVILLE, AUGUST 8, 1808. 

In the fall of the year 1804 Amos Butler, a native of 
Chester County, Pennsylvania, rami' up the valley of the 
White Water on foot as far as where Brookville now stands 
and selected the southeast quarter of Section 20 as his future 
home. Returning to Cincinnati Mr. Butler entered this land 
on the 4th day of December, 1804. (Robert Hanna. St., 
entered his land September 24. 1804.) 

During the winter of [805 Mr. I '.ntler seems to have been 
busy preparing for his future settlement at the forks of 
White Water. It was during this period that the scheme 
for a new town, a county seat, was matured while one Jesse 
Burgess Thomas and Mr. Butler were sojourning at Law- 
renceburg. A.s soon as the weather became sufficiently set- 
tled in the spring of 1805 Mr. Butler came up the valley 
bringing his goods and provisions on pack horses and com- 
menced to build his cabin and prepare for the erection of a 
mill. On the 3d day of July of that year Amos Butler and 
Jesse B. Thomas joinly entered the northwest quarter of Sec- 
tion 20. This combination of interests by Butler and Thomas 
was of >hort duration. Thomas was at that time insolvent, 
while Butler had some money and plenty of ability to make 

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more. The agreement between these founders. of a "new 
city in a new world" was that Butler should make the firsl 
payment, Thomas the second, and so on. The first install- 
ment was duly paid by Butler, but when the second fell due 
Thomas failed to appear and Butler again came to the front 
with the cash. Just how this all transpired is not quite clear, 
but the "wind up" of the matter was that Butler paid for the 
land, except a part or the whole of the final payment which 
Thomas managed to make by assigning his claim 
to a firm styled Hamilton & Jones, of Cincinnati. Thomas 
being well versed in the best methods of "closing out" a 
financial enterprise, contrived to have the patent issued to 
himself and in his own name. This bit of engineering ap- 
pears to have left Mr. Butler in pretty good condition to seek 
legal redress. Thomas went on and laid out a town and 
named it Brookville.* The surveyor was Solomon Manwar- 
ring, and the work bears date August 8, 1808. Due notice 
was given and a day appointed for the sale of the lots. At 
this stage of the proceedings Butler came to the surface with 
the necessary papers and the sale was postponed. The mat- 
ter was afterward settled by Hamilton & Jones, in whose 
name the land was held, who deeded eighty-seven and a half 
acres of the west half to Butler. The first lot sold in Brook- 
ville was Lot No, 47. The deed is dated March 7, 181 1. 

Mr. Butler brought several men with him as laborers and 
assistants. Unfortunately the names cannot be recalled, ex- 
cept that David Stoops, who was a married man, came along 
to keep boarders" for Mr. Butler. The mill was built and 



*In honor of his mother, whose maiden name was Brooks. 



52 THE HOUSE OB HANNA. 

put in operation immediately after the settlement was made 
John Allen also settled lure and built a mill on the East Fork 
below that of Butler. This was clone only a little later than 
Butler's enterprise. Concerning the details of progress made 
1>\ the Brookville settlement up to 1810 there is very little to 
Ik learned except by inference. There was hut one land en- 
trj in [807 : five in [808 : none in 1809, and six in 1810. This 
indicate- that Brookville was too near the boundary line and 
the Indian- to he desirable just then. Among those who 
came in [808 was James Knight. He seems to have been one 
of the ven first to begin business in the new city. He kept 
tavern and with his tavern he kept a store, as appears from 
an old account book that is still preserved. His old day 
book is full <>t" charges and credits, and contains the names 
<>\ many who were active in the then frontier town. The 
first one hundred pages are missing. The second entry is: 

John Allen. U 1 t< (backer $ .12^ 

I lalf pint , 12]A 

Two buckskins 2.00 

Then followed many pages of ordinary business records 
from which we -elect a few: 

Dr. I.ovell. to tobacker $ .i2 J / 2 

Dr. Lovell credited by John P.rowns not (note)... 9.00 

Joseph Reppy to half pound tea 75 

William Henderson, one pound eleven ounces lead. . .31^ 

Joseph \\ r inship credited by five day's work 5.00 

Samuel Arnett to one pare yarn socks 75 



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Joseph Winship debited to one gimblet ; '2 l / 2 

William Kelley to half powder 50 

William Kelley to two dozen small buttons 50 

William Kelle) five niting nedels - of) 1 j 

William ECelle) half pint brandy 12^2 

Richard Lyons one pare mocksons 50 

Samuel Arnet to one barrell salt 9.00 

Jeremiah Cory to sixteen lights glass 2.00 

Jeremiah Cory credited by making- two pare shoes. 1.25 

Joseph Gifferd credited by four months work 40.00 

Andrew thorp to one whisky barrell if not returned 

with fish 1.00 

Robert Adkinson to half pint 12^2 

( )ne quarter yard book muslin 37/^ 

Mr Xewhouse credited by two pounds butter 25 

Thomas Sailors to one dozen apells 12^2 

William Chambers to two half pints 25 

William Chambers to breaking - one tumbler 50 

William Kelley credited seven gallons and a half 

whiskey 3.75 

Aaron Lyons credited three bushels corn 1.00 

Mrs Eads credited by seventeen three quarter pounds 

butter 2.20 

Mrs Eads debtor one quarter pound tea 50 

Judge Brown debtor to one dinner 25 

Judge Brown debtor to one quart cider 25 

Judge Templeton debtor on dinner 25 

Judge McCarty debtor one dinner 25 

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> 

i_>. 1S10. and Knight had been in the tavern business for a 
considerable period then. 

John Allen was connected with the very earliest history 
of Brookville. He, with two of his sons, Solomon and Jo- 
siah, come lure in the summer of 1805 and entered and be- 
gan improving their lands. In the fall the sons returned to 
Pennsylvania and Solomon taught a term of school, while 
Josiah gave his attention to collecting- materials for a mill. 
In tin spring of 1806 the brothers with a flatboat load of 

g Is, machinery and the rest of the family came down the 

I >hio River to Cincinnati. The mill stones were brought in 
this cargo, and by some means transported to Brookville. 
The mill was put in operation as soon as possible after their 
arrival. Mr. Allen was a rival of Amos Butler in the various 
enterprises incident to a new town. He was the founder 
of all the southeast part of the present town of Brookville. 
He was a Justice of the Peace here for many years. Solo- 
iniin was a school teacher and noted for his fine penmanship 
and superior education. He was considered a mathematical 
prodigy and taught surveying to all the "big boys" of his 
schools. The seven sons of Mr. Allen settled here and there 
in the county and in the Wabash country and were more or 
- - thoroughly identified with the development of the coun- 
trv. 



CHAPTER VI. 

Now we have stayed around Brookville for quite a while 
watching the "doings" of Messrs. Butler, Thomas and Allen, 
and we are wondering how the Carolina settlers are pros- 
pering. We will just walk up the trail seven miles along 
the East Fork and pay them a little visit. Up the Trail? 

Ah ! no, it is no longer a bridle path, for is now bears the 
dignified appellation of the "Big road to Brookville." It has 
enlarged its dimensions to the width of a wagon or sleigh. 
The trees and bushes along its margin have been felled and 
cleared away and the bodies of the trees cut in uniform 
lengths and laid crosswise of the road farming what is known 
as a "corduroy" across the places that are particularly 
muddy. 

The first Carolina friend we come to is John Logan, and 
we are surprised to see the cleared field that stretches away 
from his cabin. He, too. has fruit trees planted all around 
his cabin ; berry bushes are in abundance, and out around 
his cabin he has sheds and other housings for his stock. 
Before leaving we ask little Jane Dollar to sing to us. She 
willingly complies and renders one of those old hymns in her 
own sweet way. 

We then proceed on our way to Robert Templeton's and, 
entering, we find one face missing from the family group. 

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It is that of their daughter Mary. We ask for her, and are 
smilinglj told that she and John Reid have set up an estab- 
lishment of their own over on the "West Fork/' and Mr. 
Templeton adds, '"They may be complimented on being the 
tir-i white people to be joined in Christian wedlock in the 
"Carolina Settlement." The improvement is wonderful that 
Robert Templeton and his hoys have made. Acres beside 
acres have been cleared and put under cultivation, and a 
commodious log barn and other outbuildings have been 
erected, and their sheep herd has increased to a goodly num- 
ber. So aNo had John Logan's flock of sheep increased its 
numbers mor.e than fourfold. It is evident by the increased 
sheep Hocks that all the settlers were bent upon keeping 
warm. 

Tin Logan and Templeton families both anxiously in- 
quire of us if we have any late news of the "Indian Upris- 
ing." We answer that the general belief is that there will 
not be any immediate outbreak, if any at all. But it is evi- 
dent by the sullen, reticent demeanor of the straggling red 
men who come into the settlement to trade that there is bad 
blood boiling somewhere. "Well." says .Mr. Templeton. "We 
are beginning to make a little preparation for our protection, 
tor Mr. Thomas Powers has erected a commodious hewed- 

house on his clearing and picketed it for a block house. 
and Mr. Robert Glidewell has built another one on his claim 
up the creek here." 

"Powers? Glidewell? We do not know them." 

'No, for the} ;ne people who came here since you went 
to Brookville, in [805, and you've been gone five vears, and 
over there," pointing over the river, "is Mr. Adams's claim. 



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and the) have a whole lot of youngsters. But Bob there can 
tell you more about them than I can. About Mary especially" 
— and the old gentleman's face beamed with the knowledge 
of "knowing something." 'The young man's face got very 
red and he walked away whistling. 

We proceed on our way and coming in sight of Robert 
i Robin) Manna's place we involuntarily stop and gaze, 
for before us stands a large hewn-log house, with ample 
room within to accommodate his large family and larger cir- 
cle of visiting relatives and friends. We find the family rela- 
tions here unchanged, excepting that their son James, now a 
widower, has come out from Carolina bringing his three 
children with him, Newton, < )liver and Charlotte. Newton 
has reached the age designated as 

"A hopple-de-hoy 
Neither man nor hoy." 

After asking James a great main questions about his sis- 
ters, Catharine Hitch and Margaret Byrd, who are yet in 
Carolina, and if he had heard from his aunt, Jane McDade. 
'over in Georgia, we get back to local events. We are told 
that there was a little girl baby born at "Aunt Polly Temple- 
ton's" on the 15th of July, 1805. This was the first female 
white child born on the White Water. About the same date 
a bouncing boy was born to the house of William Logan to 
contest the honor of being the precursor of all white baby- 
hood, and a compromise is effected by declaring little Thomas 
and little Catharine each the standard bearer of their sex. 
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ilu- attitude that England has assumed toward the 
United States, and when Mr. William Logan happens to 
drop in while they are discussing the subject the faces of the 
two "1.1 men take on a look of hard sternness as they recount 
the acts of injustice that drove us to war with them once 
before, "An' we'll hev to Eoight them agen before we'll hev 
wid thim." said Mr. I .< igan. 

"And whip them, too," said Mr. Hanna. 

" I f- ." said his son Robert. 

"Indade. there's no 'if in it. I've got me ould horse- 

yet that done good service fur George Washington, 

and I'm not so ould but thai I can go out and use thim agin." 

"Tut tut. Billy, there's plenty of us younger fellows," 
-aid James, "to shoulder our muskets now. and let you older 
codgers that fought the Revolution through stay at home to 
clear the soil you fought for." 

"Well, although the straws point toward war, yet it may 
d by prompt action on the part of the English Par- 
liament." said young Robert Hanna. And thus they con- 
tinued to discuss tin subject at great length. For certain it 
was that war clouds were raising ominously over the Ameri- 
can horizon again. The Indians had become taciturn and 
sullen when they ventured into the settlements, and Ameri- 
can diplomats were -censing England of sending her emis- 
saries among them to stir them to revolt. 

And was Mar) Hanna again fated to listen to the boom- 
ing of "war's dread alarm"" She had passed through the 
tortures of her husband's participations in the Revolution- 
ary War and through the anxieties of the Cherokee uprising, 
in which her son lames was out "soldiering," and the talk of 




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the men alarmed her. and she went about her work crying 
and praying to high heaven to avert war's dread calamity. 
I !nt before the conference was ended young Graem's patriot- 
ism was set aflame and he declared himself a ready recruit 
if it should come to "blows." But fortunately for the moth- 
er's peace of mind .she did not hear her sun's assertion, so she 
could rest in quiet for a time at least. She could not divine- 
that in one \ ear hence her Graem was to shoulder his gun 
and march, march, with the boys in the War of 1812. 

But we have heard so much of that talk down in town 
that we are tired of it. and we get them hack on to local 
matters again. We ask who has taken those claims where 
we catch the glimpse of clearings, and we are told that in 
our five years' absence there have glided into the settlement 
the Orsbornes, Abernathys, Wilsons. Johnstons, Whites, Es- 
tes, 1'owers. Dickersons, Harveys, Hobbs and Rose, and up 
on Templeton's Creek is Robert Glidewell's, and Barack- 
mans and Harrells. Mrs. Hanna tells us confidentially that 
young Robert Templeton is to be married this month I Feb- 
ruary 14, 1811), for Polly had told her that he has spoken 
to her husband ( Esq. John Templeton) to perform the cere- 
mony. And Mr. Templeton has also been engaged to marry 
Mr. James Drake to Miss Elizabeth Dickerson on the 21st 
Of Maw 

And in our gossipy chat Mrs. Manna tells us that her son- 
in-law. John Templeton, was a member of the Territorial 
Legislature last November, when two new comities were 
erected, and John was permitted to name one of them. He 
called it Franklin, after Benjamin Franklin, of whom he 
was a srreat admirer. The other was called Wavne. 



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I ask her about her daughter, Jane Manwaring, and she 
tells me that when Mr. Solomon Manwaring came up to sur- 
vey and plat the town of Brookville that Jane came up with 
him on horseback to make them a visit. She is living down 
on the main White Water, about fifteen miles below Brook- 
ville. She had met and married Mr. Manwaring while they 
were sojourning on the Dry Fork. He lived in Dearborn 
Count}- and went there on surveying business. Having met, 
it was not long till marriage followed, for owing to the incon- 
veniences surrounding the people courtships were necessarily 
brief in those days. 

Young Robert Hanna is full and running over with poli- 
tics. When there is a lull in our own conversation we catch 
-natches of the men's talk as it comes from the "room" to 
the kitchen, and it's all about "voting," "office," "candidate," 
"election." etc. We hear him say, "Yes, I'm going to run 
for Sheriff and I'd like to have your support, Mr. Logan." 

"Indade, thin ye shall hev it, me bye, for if I hev to he 
hung ye'll tye the knot soft loike. An' mebby I couldn't de- 
nd so well on a stranger." 

They all laughed at his Irish witticism, and he contin- 
ued — 

"1 had a talk wid yer brother, Judge John, as I came 
down and he tould me ye was aspirin' to office. Ye's young, 
hut mebbe ye'll take the more interest in it." 



CHAPTER VII. 

THE COURTS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 

Well, we spent last night at Judge John Hanna*s and 
when his family had all come in it was like a "big meeting." 
I tell yon there's more than o "rail full" of them. My con- 
science! But we had fun. Our cousins know how to en- 
tertain to make a visit pleasant. 

We are very much disappointed in not getting to go up to 
Esquire Ewing's (he was the first Justice of the Peace ap- 
pointed for the new settlement). Judge John Templeton's, 
Joseph Hanna's, Robert Swan's and George Leviston's. But 
time is now limited, for it is our purpose to return to Brook- 
ville to be present at the very first opening of the tribunal 
called a "court." to be held in the new county February 18, 
1811. 

Tt may not be out of place to explain here that the courts 
are of two general classes: The Circuit Courts, held and 
presided over by one of the judges representing the United 
States, and the Common Pleas Courts the judges of which 
received their authority from the Territorial Government 
only, and are limited in the extent of their jurisdiction. 
These last named courts are composed of one President Judge 
and one or more Associate Judges. All county business is 

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transacted in. or through, this court. (What is now, 1806, 
performed by the Count)- Commissioners, Auditors. Trus- 
tees, etc., was vested in this one tribunal.) Its sessions for 
public business purposes were called County Courts. Thus 
it will he understood that there was no important difference 
between a Common Ideas Court and a County Court. 

The court which is to assemble at Brookville, then, is a 
County Court. There has been no court-house built as yet, 
therefore a room will have to be rented for the assembling' 
together ni the august body. 

The 18th came and went, and it developed that a room 
was secured at Knight's Tavern, in which to hold the firsl 
court. 

The record states: Their Hon-. Benjamin McCarty, 
f"hn Templeton and Thomas Brown, judges of the Court 
of Common Pleas, and of the said court. The first business 

ns to have been the appointment of commissioners to take 
charge of the "school lands" and to lease the same for the 
public good. Xext came several tavern licenses, the first of 
which was issued to John Vanblaricum upon his paying $5 
the comity, and $1 to the clerk of the Court. The rates 
of tavern-keepers were fixed by order of the court. The first 
bill of rates for taverns here was established immediately 
after the above mentioned licenses were granted. Here it is: 

Breakfast, dinner or supper 25 cent- 
Half pint whiskey, or punch brandy T2 T < cents 

Half pint of French brandy 50 cents 

1 lalf pint of rum ^O cents 

< >ne quart of cider 12 T j cent- 



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( >ne quart of beer 12J/2 cents 

One pint of wine 12J/2 C< 

One gallon 1 if o >rn i2 l / 2 cents 

( )ue gallon of oats \2\A, cent? 

Hay. per night 18 cent" 

Lodging 6^2 cent? 

I'liilp Freck? and .Mary Case were appointed administra- 
tors of the estate of Nathaniel Cas . the ?ame be- 
ing the first appointment of the kind recorded in the count}-. 
Court then adjourned. We must confes? that it was n< 
very full docket. 



Following the County Court was the Common Plea? 
C.urt. It convened on the nth of March. 1811. The 
judges present were Benjamin McCarty. John Templeton 
and Thomas Brown. Enoch McCarty was Clerk, and Rob- 
ert Hanna. Jr.. Sheriff. Henry McCarty was appointed 
Constable for the first election district in the township. 

A grand jury, composed of the following freeholders, was 
sworn and directed to retire: John Brown, Sr.. William 
Logan, John Livingston. John Hanna. Robert Templeton. 
David Bell. Thomas Clark. Conrad Sailor. Solomon Tyner. 
Stephen Martin. Britton Gant, James Winchell, William 
Nicholas, James Nicholas, William Dubois John Allen. John 
Millhollond. John Thompson, Jacob Sailor?. Allen Ramsey, 
John Lefforge, Joshua Porten and Robert Glidewell. 

Elijah Sparks. James Dill and James Noble were admit- 
ted to practice law in said court. Tame? Noble also produced 



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a commision from His Excellency, the Governor of this 
Territory, as Prosecuting Attorney for this comity. The 
first case on the docket was Isaac Miller vs. David McKee. 
William Carter, special bail. James Adair is permitted to 
keep a tavern for one year at his house in this comity, who 
enters into bond as the law directs. The court directs that 
he pa) for the use of the comity $2, and $1 for the use of 
the Clerk. The grand jury returned indictments in the fol- 
lowing cases, which soon came up for trial with the following 

Its: United States vs. James McCoy, on indictment. 
The respondent appeared and pleaded guilty; the court as- 
3 ssed the fine at $3 and costs. United States vs. Fielding 
Jeter, on indictment for retailing strong water, and pleaded 
guilty : the court assessed the fine at $12 and costs. 

It is ordered that Judges McCarty, Templeton and Brown 
be each allowed $16 for eight days' service as Judges of this 
court. 

George Frasher and Peter Youngblood are allowed y$ 
cents apiece for killing three wolves each. Stephen Harrell 
is allowed for killing two wolves under six months old 50 
cent- each. Also William Harrell is allowed the same 
amount for killing the same number and kind of wolves. 

Enoch McCarty is allowed S20 for one-half his salary 
as Clerk for the present year. Rohert Hanna is allowed $25 
in part of his salary for the present year as Sheriff. 

The assembling of the courts followed each other in 
quick succession, for on Monday. June 24. 1811, the first 
Circuit Court of the county convened at Brookville. Tt was 
then called a court of nisi prius (oyer and terminer) or 
general jail delivery, being called after one of the English 



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courts, and well understood by the lawyers of that period. 
The Mon. Benjamin Park, one of the United States Circuit 
Judges for Indiana Territory, presided. Two indictments 
were found by the grand jury, one against Polly Knigte for 
selling whisky and trading with Indians, and the other was 
againsl Stephen C. Stephens for selling one tin pan to an 
Indian. 

The grand jury consisted of Patrick McCarty, John 
Miller, William Crofford, Robert Swan. David Holling<- 
worth, Daniel Cunningham, John Hanna, John Logan, Sam- 
uel Ely, Elliot Herndon. Philemon Harvey, James Putman, 
John Carson, John Pergit, James McGinnis, Reuben Lines 
and Joseph Rip]))-. 

The Circuit Court did not assemble again until June 21, 
181 3, when Polly Knigte was acquitted and the indictment 
against Stephens was quashed. 

Again the Common Pleas Court begun on the first of 
July, 181 1, and Jesse L. Holman was admitted to practice 
law. Pie afterward became one of the Supreme Judges of 
the State. He was the father of Hon. Wm. S. Holman, "The 
watch dog of the Treasury." 

The records of 1814 contain some interesting items. Elli- 
ott Herndon challenged James Noble to engage in mortal 
combat with bayonets ; but Sheriff Hanna and his posse 
swooped down on the belligerents and paraded them before 
the "bench." It was $50 for Herndon. Noble was dis- 
charged. One of the first duties of the court was to provide 
a revenue. Among the papers in the Auditor's office was 
found the first tax duplicate of Franklin County. It con- 
tains the list of names of persons and property agreeable to 



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the order of court, a duplicate of which would he too lengthy 
t" insert here. We give only the conclusion of it: 

Indiana Territory, Franklin County, To-Wit: 

[do hereb) certify that the foregoing is a list or schedule 
of taxable property, taken in the County of Franklin afore- 
said for tin.' year [811. 

By me. 

ROBERT HANNA, Jr., 
Sheriff for Franklin County. 
Came fc i the other June i . 1S1 1. 
Enoch McCarty, 

Clerk Common Pleas. Franklin County. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

JAILS. 

The first mention of a jail is under head of April 15. 
1S12. thus: "This day the Court received the Count)- jail 
of James Knight." And immediately after conies the fol- 
lowing entry: "Ordered, that James Winchell be appointed 
to collect the subscription money donated to the County of 
Franklin as her subscription as soon as the same can be col- 
lected by a legal course of law, and pay the same to the 
judges of the Courts of Common Pleas." 

May 15, 1813, James Knight was paid $60 (on account) 
of moneys due him for work on the above jail. 

May 15, 1813, came a statement to the Court as follows: 
'To the Honorable Judges of the Court of Common Pleas 
of Franklin County, I. T. : 

"Having examined the County jail, I find it deficient in 
several respects. First, it is insufficient in point of struc- 
ture. Secondly, that there are not separate rooms provided 
for the sexes. Therefore I enter this, my solemn protest, 
against its sufficiency in the aforesaid respects, and submit 
this to your consideration. 

"ROBERT HANNA, 
"Sheriff of Franklin County." 

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KAKTIinLAKKS. 

In searching for old fragments ot local history of the 
White Water \ alky one occasionally sees in print something 

irding the earthquakes. Perhaps the only authentic ac- 
count of it is preserved in the papers of the Rev. Mr. Wiley. 
Mr says: "The same tall in which the battle of Tippecanoe 
was fought I 1S1 i ) the whole western country was shaken 
b) severe earthquakes. These lasted the largest part of a 
year, in which we would have occasional shakes, but they 
were not so severe after the winter passed. The hrst shock- 
was on Sunday night, or rather, Monday morning. My fam- 
ily and 1 were asleep and the cracking and jarring of the 
house awakened us and I saw the cradle rocking in the mid- 
dle of the floor without a hand touching it. When day ar- 
rive* 1 1 felt anxious to have another shake that I might wit- 

- it- appearance by daylight. I was soon gratified. After 
we had finished feeding the animals T was leanine - against 
the fence; I felt it begin to shake and looking at the barn 
I -aw it shake fearfully. This shake satisfied my curiosity 
and 1 would have been glad for this to have been the last. 
but the thing having begun, did not end so readily, for in 
February we had shake's still more terrible. The whole 
ci tuntr) became alarmed and the most hardened sinners began 
to tremble and quake and go to meeting, and weep, and prav. 
There was one man. William Ramsey, whom I had regarded 

one of the most profane and wicked men I ever knew, 
who became as tame and timid as a lamb. He afterward 

nne a useful preacher and continued so for vears." 

We will relate the legend of the building of the first 



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church iii Franklin County. At this time ( 1S12J the prevail- 
ing religious belief was that of the Baptists, and for some time 
they had been holding meetings at the homes of different 
members. They had organized a church association, although 
they had no meeting house. But they became somewhat care- 
less and neglectful of the discharge of sacred duties, and one 
day, after long forbearance, they were sternly reminded of 
negligence somewhere, for along came the great earthquake 
—the most severe ever experienced in the history of White 
Water Valley. The earth trembled and vibrated, while the 
water in the river splashed from shore to shore as if its bed 
were a trough that was being rocked: the tree tops waved 
like heads of barley in a June wind. The people with a sud- 
den and awful sense of scare ran to and fro, called for prayer 
meetings, exhorted each other to good deeds and repented of 
their sins as if the judgment day was at hand. They met to- 
gether in solemn conclave and made covenant with the Al- 
mighty that if he would send no more of those terrible earth- 
quakes they would build him a church. 

Consequently John Milholland and Conrad Savior were 
appointed to secure the title of two acres of land purchased 
of William Wilson and those two acres are the lots on which 
the old church and cemetery are located. The building is 
situated on the Harrison and Brookville turnpike, three 
miles south of Brookville, and its material is of hard baked 
brick. It is plain and rectangular, planner 1 like a drv goods 
box, more for use than for beauty. Tt contains a gallerv sup- 
ported by strong columns of ash, which on their octagonal 
surfaces still bear the ax marks of the pioneer builders. The 
pulpit is large, high, square and plain, and is placed against 



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the center of the north wall. The woodwork is all unpainted 
ami unvarnished; time having given it a beautiful brown 
color. ( Iriginally there were two stairways to the gallery, 
and the building was heated by burning charcoal on a hearth 
in the center of the floor in front of the pulpit. The seats 
arc high-backed and old-fashioned, decorated by many letters 
ami nanus readily carved by the pocket knaves of boys who 
have grown up to manhood, chosen their different ways, and 
finally laid down life's burdens and gone away to God. The 
building has three doorways opening to the east, south and 
i. with aisles running from each to the center of the room. 
( lutside, high up in the western gable, is the date of the 
building, [812. Thus we give an account of the first church 
built in the White Water Valley, but none of the Carolina 
Settlement ever, or rarely ever, attended worship there on 
account of the distance and bad roads. 



CHAPTER IX. 



GENERAL MUSTER. 



During the period which elapsed between the last years 
of the eighteenth century and the close of the War of 1812 
and even for a few years later the "boundary line" was the 
limit of civil progress westward. (Concerning the exact lo- 
cation of the first court room there is no account. It was 
said that Knight's old tavern was the place and there are 
certain bits of evidence which indicate as much.) 

Within gunshot of the court-house were the homes, the 
haunts and the hunting grounds of the Indians, who, while 
professing peace and frienship, were worthy of little or no 
confidence. This condition of affairs made it necessary to 
provide such means of defense as were consistent with the 
times. The recollections of the old men and their descend- 
ants and the traditions of this late day are the only sources 
of information in regard to the interesting particulars of that 
early period. Concerning this subject Mr. McClure said (at 
the time Mr. McClure was interviewed he was a very old 
man ; and he has been asleep in the silent city for many 
years) : "In the first settlement of the White Water Val- 
ley the Indians frequently came in to trade and were peace- 
ably disposed until the breaking out of the War of 181 2 or a 

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little before. Tluy then began to he hostile and commit 
depredations upon the settlers on the borders of the settle- 
11 iv nt . when the people had to build block houses and fortify 

inst them. There was a block-house about half a mile 
above Johnson's Fork on the bank of the river, one three 
and a half mile- below Brookville on the farm of Conrad 
Sailors, and several more on the West Kork and on Pipe and 
Salt Creeks. I will try to describe the fort at Sailors, where 
we frequently had to go on the alarm of the Indians. It 
was a square containing from a quarter to half an acre with 
a block-house at each corner. The outside of the block- 
houses, about seven feet from the ground, projected about 
three feet farther than the under part of the building, with a 
platform in the upper storj to stand on, with portholes above 
and below for rifles and well chinked with wood to be bullet 
proof. There was a ditch about three feet deep dug from one 
block-house to another and puncheons ten or twelve feet 
long well set in the ditch to break joints. With a strong 
door the fort was complete. The whole neighborhood had 
to assemble frequently on alarms about Indians. There were 
several persons killed by the Indians on White Water. Two 
men by the nanus of Stafford and Cune were killed at one 
time- on Salt Creek while burning brush at night. There 
were companies that went out to White and Blue Rivers 
and burned the Indian towns and destroyed their crops, so 
they had to move farther back and we were not troubled 
much by them after 1813." 

Elliott Herndon had command of a rifle company which 
was frequent!) called out and did good service. There was 
a company of mounted rangers enlisted by the Government 



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for two years for defense against the Indians in the Terri- 
tory, commanded b) Frederick Shultz, raised on White Wa- 
ter. But tin \ were kept mostly on the Wabash at Vincennes 
or Fort Knox, and Fori Harrison near Terre Haute — sixty- 
miles apart, after the Indians left the Territory. 

During the last war with England the people were greatly 
disturbed b) Indians. The necessities of the times demanded 
the organization and drilling of the militia forces. These 
old "musters" were seasons of general frolic by the people. 
Xo recollections of early Franklin County would be worth a 
cent winch did not mention general "muster day." The pe- 
riod of which I write was near the close of "the late war." 
as the war of [812-15 was then called. Patriotism was at a 
premium, and to hate the British was the bounden duty of 
everybody, and the statesmen of those "days were sure we 
would have to fight them again at no very remote period; 
hence the laws required everybody between the ages of eight- 
een and forty-five to muster at least once a year. An old 
black lustre coat with scarlet collar and cuffs, worn by David 
Graem Hanna on these muster days, is still preserved at the 
Hanna homestead. 

There were several well drilled infantry and cavalry- 
companies which paraded quite frequently in their several 
localities. These held their regimental musters in the spring. 
one regiment on the Hamilton road on the farm now owned 
by Dr. J. R. Goodwin, then Vandyke's tavern, and the other 
at Mount's tavern, where Metamora now stands. They 
were attended almost exclusively by the uniformed soldiers 
and a few of the neighbors. But the "general muster" was 
the event of the vear. as everv able-bodied man had to mus- 



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ter once a year, or be fined, and as there were men enough of 
miltan aspiration in every neighborhood to complain on the 
delinquents it is easy to see that the crowd on muster-day 
was immense, because everybody brought the whole family. 
They came on horseback, in wagons and on foot; the old and 
the young came. They came partly to see the muster, partly 
to see each other, but chiefly to eat gingerbread and to drink 
cider, beer and something stronger. Some came to engage 
in their regular annual list-fights. The "column'" was usually 
formed on or about the public square, and thence into the 
Bottom, down James street to the residence of Judge Mc- 
kinney. thence north to the open grounds between the tan 
yard and the town. The infantry and other uniformed com- 
panies led in the march*. Then followed the great "un- 
washed,"' the "flat foots," which constituted the finest possi- 
ble burleque on military movements. There were men with 
all kinds of hats or no hats at all; hundreds of them bare- 
Footed, most of them in shirt sleeves, or at best with "linsey 
wamusses," and some with canes, some with hoop poles, 
many with cornstalks and occasionally some with fence rails 
ten Beet long; sometimes four abreast and sometimes ten; 
some sober, but already many drunk before noon — and then 
they marched. But this constituted a "muster" in the eyes 
of the law and generally they were dismissed soon after 
reaching the parade grounds, much to the relief of the uni- 
formed companies, which spent an hour or so drilling. 

The disbanding of the "flat foots" was the signal for an 
attack upon the gingerbread wagons, which had stationed 
themselves all over the Bottom. They came from afar, and it 
was said at one time that one of the "sutlers" sold at one 



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"muster," about [826 or 1S27, half a conl of ginger cakes, 
and such cakes! They were of a superior kind, because lux- 
uries of that kind were so rare. They were about sixteen 
inches square and an inch and a half thick, with lines deeply 
sunken dividing the whole cake into four equal part--. Tl 
were respectively sections and quarter sections, and the coun- 
try beaux or big brothers who could march, up their own sis- 
ters, or somebody else's sister, and invest a quarter in a sec- 
tion of ginger cake, with another quarter in cider or spruce 
beer, had usually secured the right to take that party to 
singing school for twelve months at least, as against a rival 
who had not treated at "general muster." 

In 181 7 a militia organization was effected and the state 
was divided into divisions and brigades. Franklin County 
was the Sixth Brigade and Third Division. In the old records 
are to be found the names of many of the old militia officers. 
The following is a partial list of them : 

Brigadier General of Sixth Brigade, Third Division, 
Robert Hanna, Jr. 

Colonel Seventh Regiment — Noah Noble. 

Captains, Jesse Clements, William Chilton, John Brison, 
Jonathan McCarty, Isaac Fuller, Andrew Shirk, James Mc- 
Kinney, Robert Faucett, Samuel Lee, Robert Neugent. 

Lieutenants, Martin McKee. Thomas Wenscott, Alexan- 
der Gardner, James Abercrombie, John Ffackleman. Powell 
Scott. John Hiday. 

Ensigns, James Dixon. Henry A. Reed. William Maple. 
William Golding, Peter Brackin, James Moore. Jacob Fau- 
cett. 

Aid-de-Camp. Miles C. Eggleston. 



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A biographer has said of Robert Hanna, Jr., "Brigadier 
I ieneral Robert I [anna was among the very first men in early 
Indiana. He was. in person, below the common size, strong- 
ami firmly built up, his head large, forehead high, eyes light 
blue and well set in his head. His walk would point him out 
a- a drill officer of the regular army, and his appearance 
in Full uniform at the head of his brigade was truly en mili- 
taire. B) his good graces he won entirely the respect of 

subordinate officers and private soldiers." 



CHAPTER X. 

A JOKE. 

Iii early times, before the first land sales of the beautiful 
White Water Valley where Connersville now stands, there 
lived upon the east hank of White Water, a mile above where 
Connersville now stands (the reader must remember that 
was within the bounds of this county) the most remarkable 
woman by the name of Betty Frazier. She was a small, 
tough-looking - , rather swarthy woman. Her husband, George 
Frazier, was a poor cripple and, with their children, was 
entirely supported by Betty. 

They had settled upon a small fraction of Government 
land, intending to purchase it at the sales. The land office 
was at Cincinnati. It was the spring of the year, after a 
severe winter, and Betty had the season before her to raise 
the money to pay for her land — the sales were to take place 
the next winter. She began with a young stock of hogs, 
caring for them daily, driving them to the best mast, and 
raising a good patch of corn for the fattening process. She 
had only one horse with which to attend to her crops and 
to ride to Cincinnati when she should drive her hogs down to 
sell them and buy her land. One day, about midsummer, she 
saw a horseman in full uniform riding toward her cabin. 

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She met him at the bars and said. "Well, General Hanna, 
how do you do?" "Wry well, Mrs. Frazier, thank yon." 
Then followed the usual exchange of courtesies, after which 
her curiosity could not be suppressed and she asked, "Gen- 
eral, what on earth has brought you all the way from Brook- 
ville to my poor cabin?" The General looked very grave, 
and said. "I am very sorry to tell you. Mrs. Frazier, that I 
am the Sheriff and have an execution against your prop- 
erty." 

"Well, General. I always submit to the law. Come with 
me to the stable and I will give you my only horse as the 
best 1 can do.*' (There were no exemption laws then.) 
Betty and the General proceeded to the stable, which was a 
strong log building with a single door and no window. It 
was overlaid with a solid platform of logs and filled above 
with hay for the horse. The door fastened outside with a 
large wooden pin in a log. "There, General, is the horse, 
take him," she said. The General stepped in and commenced 
untying the horse. Betty quickly shut the door and drove 
the pin into the hole its full length and left the General and 
the horse to their reflections, while she attended to her house- 
hold affairs. Time passed, night came on, but no relief t'o 
the captured General. Morning came and with it came 
Betty. She peeped in at a chink and asked, "Well, General, 
how did you sleep last night?" "Not very well, Mrs. Fraz- 
ier, and now T am ready to compromise this matter. If you 
will let me out and show me the ford over White Water 
(the river was muddy and swollen) I will leave your horse 
and return the execution — no property found." "Upon honor. 
General?" "Yes, upon honor, Mrs. Frazier." Betty opened 



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the door. The General stepped out and was invited by Bettj 
to partake of breakfast, which he was glad enough to do, 
then took his departure, Betty showing him the ford as she 
had promised. 



I HAPTER XL 

INDIANA ADMITTED AS A STATE. 

A memorial was adopted by the Legislature of the 
Indiana Territory, on the 14th day of December, 1815, and 
laid before Congress by the Territorial delegates. 

Mr. Jennings, on the 28th of the same month, asked that 
honorable body to order an election to be held in the said 
Territory on the first Monday in May, 1816, for representa- 
tives to meet at the seat of government of the said Territory 
to form a constitution and take the necessary steps toward the 
formation of a state government. 

Congress granted the prayer of the petitioners and passed 
a law accordingly. Tn conformity with the provisions of that 
law the people held an election on the 13th day of May for 
Representatives as above stated. There were then but thir- 
teen counties in the State and according to the apportionment 
then made Franklin County was entitled tc five Representa- 
tives in the convention. They were William H. Eads, James 
Brownlee, Enoch McCarty, Robert Manna. Jr., and James 
Noble. 

Mr. Eads was a member of the Committee on Impeach- 
ments. 

Mr. Brownlee was a member of the Committee on the 
Executive Department of Government. 

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Mr. McCarty was a member of the Committee on Distri- 
butions of Powers of Government, and on Prisons. 

Air. Hanna was a member of tbe Committee on Revis- 
ing the Constitution, and on the Militia. 

Mr. Noble was a member of the Committee on the Mili- 
tia, on the Judical Department, and on tbe Legislative De- 
partment. 

Tbe officers of tbe Territorial Government of Indiana, 
including the Governor, Secretary, Judges, and all other 
officers — civil and military — were required by tbe provisions 
of the new State Constitution to continue in the exercise 
of tbe duties of their respective offices until their successors 
should be chosen under authority of the State Government. 
Tbe President of tbe Convention that formed tbe Constitu- 
tion was required to issue writs of election, directed to the 
several Sheriffs of the several counties, requiring them to 
cause an election to be held for Governor, Lieutenant Gov- 
ernor, Representative to the Congress of the United States, 
Members of the General Assembly, Sheriffs and Coroners. 

Accordingly Sheriff Hanna isued a writ of election to he 
held on tbe first Monday in August, 1816, in Franklin 
County. 

Jonathan Jennings was chosen Governor, Christopher 
Harrison. Lieutenant Governor. AYilliam Hendricks for Con- 
gress, John Connor. State Senator from Franklin County, 
James Xoble, David Mounts and James Brownlee Represen- 
tatives in tbe Legislature. 

Under the new State Constitution the jurisdiction and 
proceedings of the courts were materially changed. The Cir- 
cuit Court was so framed as to have one President and two 



84 THE HOUSE OF HANNA. 

Associate Judges, the state being divided into three circuits — 
the Presiding Judge and one Associate. The President alone 
or the two Associate Judges in the absence of the President 
wtit.' competent to hold court. The President was appointed 
h\ tin Legislature, and the Associate Judges were elected by 
the people. The Clerk was appointed by the Supreme 
Court and held his office for a term of seven years. The 
first election in the county under the Constitution was held 
on the 5th day of August, 1816. 



( Iffice. Votes. 

Governor — 

Jonathan Jennings 506 

Thomas Posey •. 53 

Lieutenant-Governor — 

( Christopher Harrison 463 

John \ enters 69 

For Congress — 

William Hendricks 440, 

Allen D. Tom • 40 

For State Senator — 

William H. Eads 27S 

John Connor 237 

For Representative — 

James Noble 518 

David Mounts 320 

Archibald Guthrie 133 

Janus Young 197 

I' »r Coroner — 

James Brownlee 44 



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Joseph Northrop 112 

For Sheriff — 

Robert Eianna 426 

John Allen 118 

The developmenl of Brookville after the first nine years 
of its inception may be partially gleaned from the subjoined 
extract from an old State Gazeteer, published in 1817 as fol- 
lows : 

"At the edose of the War of 1812 Brookville contained 
but ten or twelve houses. It now (July, 1817) contains up- 
ward of eighty buildings, exclusive of shops, stables and out- 
houses. The buildings are frame and a great number of 
them are handsomely painted. There are within the pre- 
cincts of the town two grist-mills, one saw-mill, two fulling 
mills, three carding machines, one printing office, one silver- 
smith, two saddlers, two cabinet-makers, one hatter, two 
tailors, four boot and shoe-makers, two tanners and curriers, 
one chair-maker, one cooper, five taverns and seven stores. 
There are also a jail, a market-house and a handsome brick 
court-house." 

We subjoin the names of a few of the leading business 
men of Brookville, with the date, when obtainable, of their 
arrival in the town. The reader is familiar with Bntler and 
Allen. Benjamin McCarty came in 1804. 

William McQeary came with James Knight, of whom 
he was a brother-in-law. He was one of the active business 
men of pioneer days and was at one time Treasurer of Frank- 
lin County. They were coetaneous with Butler. 

Nathan D. Gallion was a soldier of the Twenty-eighth 
Regiment of U. S. Infantry during the War of 1812. In 



86 THE HOUSE OF HANNA. 

December, 1S14. he came to Brookville with a stock of 
goods. 1 1 is store was on the corner of Alain and Claiborne 
streets and was known for years as the "Old White Cor- 
ner." .Mr. ("allien was one of the earliest merchants in 
town and was continuously in business for over forty years. 

James .\lc< rinnis was a tanner, and opened a small yard 
east of town, probably the first in the county. He was the 
first to commit suicide in the county. 

Ruggle Winchell built the first frame house in town in 
[811-12. 

William H. Eads was one of the very earliest business 
men in Brookville. He kept a store on Main street opposite 
the "White Corner.'* and also operated a tannery. 

Thomas C. Eads was also an early settler. He was a 
brother to AVilliam H. Eads and father of the celebrated 
Captain Eads of "jetty*' fame. 

Richard Tyner commenced life by clerking- for William 
II. Eads. He was afterward one of the leading- merchants 
lure for many years. 

Samuel Goodwin came in 1816. He was a tanner and 
carried on business here for many years. He was a leader 
in the early religions movements here, and may be fairly 
regarded as the founder of Methodism in Brookville. 

John Test came from Xew Jersey to Brookville in 1812 
anil rented the Butler mill property, which he operated in 
conjunction with a carding machine. Mr. Test was a lawyer 
by profession, and practiced as such after remaining here a 
few years. 

John Beaty began merchandising in 1815. He was the 
first postmaster in Brookville. 



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Andrew Wallace was the landlord of the Brookville Ho- 
tel. David was a son of Andrew Wallace. He entered the 
United States Military Academy from this town and gradu- 
ated with- honors. He finally became Governor of Indiana 
from Brookville, where he studied law with John Test. 

Thomas Wallace was another son of Andrew Wallace, 
lie entered the United States Navy from here at an early 
date. General Lew Wallace is a son of Governor David 
Wallace. He was horn in the old yellow brick house on the 
corner, north of the Catholic parsonage in Brookville. 

John Vanblaricum's name is frequently encountered in 
conning over the early records. He appears to have had a 
faculty for getting into litigation, and was ?. ''chronic juror." 
He was a blacksmith by trade, and is said to have been the 
first of that trade in town. 

Eugene Corey was a tanner. He operated the yard 
where Pegg & Davis were engaged later. Corey was inter- 
ested in the water power where Amos Church afterward 
established his wheel shop. 

The "Franklin Bank of Brookville" was the name of one 
of the private moneyed institutions of the period of 1818. 
The board of directors were Samuel Goodwin, Robert John, 
W. H. Eads, Enoch D. John, C. Drew, Noah Noble and 
Enoch McCarty, with B. F. Morris cashier. There were sev- 
eral such banks here in olden times, all of which issued freely 
and redeemed at their pleasure. Some of them never called 
in their obligations. 

George and Robert Breckenridge sold goods here for 
many years. They afterwards operated a flouring mill. 

Edward Hudson came in 1815. He was a chair-maker. 



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1 1, nn 1 [artman came in 1815. He was a cabinet-maker. 

Charles Hutchens was editor of the Brookville Inquirer 
in [817. 

Thomas Winscott came about 1815. He was a carpenter. 

Thomas W. and James S. Colescott came in 1816. They 

n among the most active business men of early times. 

Sampson Powers was one of the old-time merchants in 

okville. He was the brother of Hiram Powers, the fa- 
mous sculptor. 



CHAPTER XII. 



THE BELLIGERENTS. 



The first court held in the county under the Constitution 

was in March, 1S17. John Test was the President and John 
Jacobs and John Hanna the Associate Judges. Enoch Mc- 
Carty was Clerk, and Robert Hanna, Sheriff. 

fn the spring of 1817 four of the most prominent attor- 
neys of the Brookville bar became pugnacious. The first 
difficulty arose between James McKinney* and .Miles C. 
Eggleston, and, as the allegations in the indictment charge, 
a mutual agreement and understanding was made between 
them to settle the existing difficulty by "wager of battle." 
Accordingly they met and argued the case with fists and 
heels. Which one got the better of the flight, or the blackest 
eve. or who first halloed "nuff" the record does not state. 
They were arraigned before the court, pleaded not guilty, 
put themselves upon the country and stood trial. The jurj 
found a verdict against them, and the Court assessed a fine 
of $5 against each. 

This affray had scarcely been settled when James Noble 
and Stephen C. Stephens mutually met in a warlike manner 
to settle some misunderstanding or controversy concerning 



•He was a brother-in-law to G-raem Hanna. 
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ne point, without going through the legal process before 
his Honor, Judge Test. How this scuffle ended or which one 
said "Damned be he who cries enough," or thought to him- 
self— 

"He that tights and runs away 
.May live to fight some other day." 

the pleading in the case does not say, but each plead guilty 
and was fined $5 for his pugilistic sport. 

The attorneys who managed most of the business in 
[817 were Eggleston, McKinney, Lane, Hendricks, Noble 
and Stevens. 



CHAPTER XIII. 

LAWYERS AND PROMINENT PUBLIC MEN. 

Few, if any, counties in Indiana can exhibit a greater 
number of names of well known and honorable men than 
can Franklin County. 

The list is probably not as complete as one would have 
it, on account of the uncertain nature of the data at hand. 
Of the attorneys who have been and are now practicing in 
Brookville the first recorded are : 

Elijah Sparks, admitted March 4, 181 1. 

James Noble, same date, was United States Senator from 
Indiana, and member of the First Constitutional Convention. 

Jesse L. Holman, March 5, 181 1, a Judge of the United 
States District Court. 

Isaac Blackford, May 10, 1813. 

James McKinney, March 15, 181 5. 

Miles C. Eggleston, March 13, 1817, became a Circuit 
Judge. 

Stephen C. Stephens, same date. Was an aid to General 
Jackson at New Orleans ; was Supreme Judge of Indiana. 

Daniel J. Caswell, November 20, 1818. 

William R. Morris, same date. 

Daniel Drew, same date. Was State Senator. 



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[saac M. Johnson, Ma> 17. 1819. 

Richard S. Wheatly, March 15, 1820. 

Charles II. Test, August 17. [822, Judge of the Circuit 

(. nun. 

Thomas J. Langdon, .March 19, 1827. 

Benjamin S. Koble, March 23. 1830. Representative in 
I legislature. 

John M. John -ton. March 17. 1829. Probate Judge of 
Franklin County. 

John Test. Jr., same date. 

William I'. McCarty. April 9. 1833. State Senator and 
rcuit Judge. 

James B. Hail, same date. 

John A. Mat son. October 5. 1832. Representative to the 
Legislature. 

John Ryman, same date. 

1 .eorge Holland, same date. 

John Hutchen, October. 1833. 

William Daily, same date. 

Abram A. Hammond. April. 1835. Lieutenant Governor 
on the ticket with Governor Willard, who died in office. 
Hammond succeeded him for the unexpired term. 

Hugh B. Eggleston. August. 1837. 

P. A. Hackleman. February, 1838. He entered the vol- 
unteer army in 1861 as Colonel of the Sixteenth Regiment 
of Indiana Volunters. He was promoted to the rank of Brig- 
adier General and was killed in action at Corinth in 1862. 

James McLain Hanna studied law with Judge John INT. 
Johnston in 1837-38. Removed to Clay County and prac- 

d. Served a- Circuit Judge. Elected twice to the Legis- 



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lature. The last term he was a colleague with his father, 
Graem 1 lamia (who was there representing Franklin Coun- 
ty). < In the death of Supreme Judge Perkins he was ap- 
pointed to till the unexpired term, and then was elected fr 
full term. Just as the term was nearing its close he died, 
having served as Supreme Judge twelve years. 

John D. Howland, August 8. 1822. 

James B. Sleeth. same date. 

John H. Farquhar, same date. 

Daniel D. Jones, Augusl 26, 1847. was Prosecuting At- 
t< irney. 

Hadley D. Johnson, 1848. 

John F. McCarty, 1848. Great-grandson of Rohin Hanna. 

Edgar Haymond, 1 8>_fQ. 

James Gavin, Jr., 1850. 

Wilson Morrow, T853. 

James R. McClure, same date. 

Henry Clay Hanna. 1853. Late Judge Thirty-seventh 
Judicial District of Indiana. 

Cyrus Kilgore, 1853. 

N. Mc. Crookshank, same date. 

Joseph Brady, same date. 

Charles Moorman. 

James R. Sites. 

John Shirk was an early lawyer. 

Ferdinand S. Swift came to Brookville in the spring- of 
1866 and entered the office of Judge Henry Hanna. Tn 
April, 1867, he was admitted as partner of Judge Hanna. 
the partnership lasting until T870. when the senior partner 
accepted the position of Circuit Judge. Tn July, 1880, he was 



94 THE HOUSE OF HANNA. 

appointed 1>\ Governor Williams to fill the vacancy caused 
by the death of his former partner, and in October of the 
same year the people endorsed the appointment. He was re- 
elected, and again and again re-elected until he had served 
for twenty-five years. Thus one law firm held the balance 
■ ver the seat of justice for thirty-five years. 

1 lenry Berry. Jr., 1853. served two terms as Clerk of the 
Court. 

Fielding Berry, 1859. 

Samuel S. Harrel, April, i860. A lawyer of much local 
prominence, represented his District in the Legislature two 
terms. 

William 11. Bracken, [861. Was Clerk of the Court. 

William H. Jones and his brother Charles were partners 
in the law firm of Jones & Jones. 

Isaac Carter. .May. 1 88 1. 

Stephen E. Urmston, a Senator in the General Assembly 
of the State. 

John F. McKee, 1867. 

David W. McKee, 1873. Was elected Circuit Judge. 

F. M. Alexander. August 19, T877. Was Senator. 

Edgar O'Hare. 1881. 

George F. O'Byrne, 1882. 

Doctor George Berry was probably the best known man 
in Franklin County, having been a medical practitioner for 
more than half a century. He was an ardent politician. Be- 
ing possessed of a great deal of personal magnetism he very 
naturally impressed himself upon the memory of all whom 
he met. He was out as a surgeon from st?rt to finish in the 

xican War. and was twice elected to the Legislature. 



CHAPTER XIV. 

Concerning the exact location of the first court-room 
there is no account. The record for April 13, 1812, has this 
item : Court met at the temporary court-house for the coun- 
ty of Franklin, Indiana Territory. On the 15th (while the 
court was paying - hills) Daniel Vanhertlow was allowed $15 
for work done for the county, in fixing- benches and tables 
for the court-house, and James Knight is allowed $4 for 
house rent. 

Thus the courts were held at Knight's Tavern during the 
first year of the existence of the county, in April. 1812, there 
was a log court-house ready for the reception of the Goddess 
of the Sword and Scales. This house had been prepared dur- 
ing the year then just past. After the erection of the new 
brick court-house the log court-house was moved off and 
used for a school-house for many years. 

At the August term of the County Court, 1814. proceed- 
ings were commenced for the building of the court-house. 
Public notice was given of the letting of the same, which let- 
ting was afterward awarded to James Knight and Martin 
Jameson, who gave bond in the sum of $8,000, with Jeremiah 
Cory and Aquilla Logan as sureties for its completion by 
the ist of October. t8t6. The specifications were drawn by 
Aquilla Logan. The old court-house, which had been used 

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for school purposes, was ordered to be sold at public outcry, 
by Sheriff 1 [anna. 

The new court-house was finished according to contract, 
and stood for thirty-five years. On the 22A of February it 
burned down. The presenl court-house was built the same 

r. The original style of the present court-house was of 
the Italian Hat-roofed design, not pleasing to the eye and 
also not durable, especially the roof, which gave some 
trouble from leakage. In the fall of 1877 tne Commission- 
commenced to overhaul the structure with a view to its 
improvement, both in style and structure. The mechanics in 
charge of the work had taken down some of the battlement 
walls and had piled the materials therefrom, on the roof; this 
had been in progress several days when, between 9 and 10 
"'clock in the forenoon of Saturday, October 13, 1877, a 
terrible thing occurred. The Circuit Court was in session 
with Judge Henry C. Hanna presiding. Others present 
were Sheriff I reorge 15. Winscott, Robert McKeown, Thomas 
H. Smith. Francis ML Alexander. S. S. Harrell, William H. 
Jones. J. R. McMahan, William H. Bracken, Henry Berry. 
Fielding Berry, S. E. Urmston and John F. McKee. These 
were officers and attorneys. Beside the bar there were Nich- 
olas Bath, Louis Willingbring, H. H. Seal, Fredric Miller 
and Charles Studinger, in all. twenty persons. 

When <nddenly Judge I [anna sprang to his feet, gave a 
bound forward and shouted "Ciet out! Get out! Run! 
Run !" I \erv man was on his feet instantly, and rushed after 
the Judge, but ere a single one could reach the door the 
whole roof came crashing down upon them, with its great 
timbers, and bricks and tons of stone and plastering from 



I III HOUSE OF HANNA. 97 

which a stifling lime dusl arose. Some wen caught and held 
(irmly h\ the debris, and others wen- almost lifeless from 
strangulation when rescued. On the roof at the time of its 
collapse were T. II. Brown, G. Davis. John Castle, William 
Castle, Frank Gagle, F. Beyer, William Bienze, Jr., and 
Christian Brown. They came down with the roof, but fared 
better than those beneath them. Immediately they resolved 
themselves into a "wrecking crew"" and began the work of 
rescue. The entire upper portion of the building hack of the 
tower was a wreck, the greater part of it falling within the 
bar, where the lawyers had been seated. This disaster, for- 
tunately, resulted in no loss of life or serious injury to any 
of those who were imperiled by the situation. Some were 
badly bruised, and all were sadly frightened. 



CHAPTER XV. 

It is a long time- since we were "up the river" to see our 
folk. But we have heard from them occasionally through 
Robert Hanna and his Deputy Sheriff, Rohert Ervin Hanna 
(one of the twin sons of Judge John Hanna). And as to- 
morrow is one of the days for the "stage" to go to Rich- 
mond we will get ready to go in it. 

Morning. — Have arrived at Robin Hanna's in time for 
breakfast. The delicious odor of the savory victuals as they 
were lifted from the skillets and ovens before the open fire 
whetted our already ravenous appetites, so that when we join 
the family around the table we are prepared to do full jus- 
tice to the well cooked meal. And the beautifully clean 
kitchen is a good appetizer, too, for they have lately given the 

walls a "white washing" with a blue-clay solution. Tt is 
a commodious room, its dimensions being 18x21 feet. The 
side walk are perforated each with a door and window. The 
window- contain nine panes of glass 8\to. There is another 
door in the west wall opening into the "room."" 

But the attractive feature of the kitchen is its fireplace. Tt 

seven feel across the front from jamb to jamb. The 

arch is straight and nearly five feet from the hearth. The 

•What is now called a "parlor" in those days was desig- 
nated ;i "room." 

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THE HOUSE OF HANNA. <)<> 

depth of the side walls is three feet. Away up in the chim- 
ney a pole is securely fastened lengthwise of the chimney, and 

to it is securel) fastened tour chains that extend downward 
to the fire, upon which can be hung the pots and kettles. 
But the hearth is a marvel of comfort to the cook. It is one 
great flat stone slab four feet wide and seven feet long, 
dressed off smoothly so that there is no upsetting of vessels 
by an uneven hearth. (The kitchen with its fireplace was 
torn down. ) 

breakfast over we all retired to the ''room" to have a 
friendly chat. One face is missing from the family group. 
It is that of James. A few days ago he threw his saddle- 
bags across his horse, mounted it, and with a cordial "good- 
live" rode off, on his start back to South Carolina to see his 
two sisters and other relatives there. (Xote — Some people 
seem to live for a special purpose in life, and he was one 
of them, and his mission that of keeping memory freshened. 
.'iiid, affection warm and glowing in the minds and hearts of 
those widely separated members of the same family. He 
made man}- trips on horseback from the one state to tin 
other. He was the only one of the family who ever saw- 
Catharine and Margaret again after leaving them in 1801.) 

Change has been busy in its work here as elsewhere 
Young Robert has taken advantage of the authority of his 
office to arrest a comely thrifty German maiden. Miss Sally 
Mowery, and appearing with her before His Honor. Judge 
Benjamin McCarty, on March 18, 1813. he grasped her 
hand firmly while the Judge obtained a pledge from her to 
love, honor and obey the young man. Hut the wily old 
Judge did not stop there, for he needs must have a pledge 



IOO THE HOUSE OF HANNA. 

from him, too, to love, honor and protect his captive. Then 
the Judge uttered their solemn doom: 

"1 pronounce you man and wife." 

Young Robert has built a hewed-log house on his claim 
across the river from Grandfather's, and lie and his bride 
went to housekeeping there. We see a bright presence flit- 
ting around through the rooms like a busy bee, and we 
know that it is young Graem's girl wife. His young- friends 
had t rased him much about going to "Uncle Jimmie" Mc- 
Kinney's to learn weaving ( McKinney was a Scotch weaver, 
and made a specialty of coverlet weaving). It was not 
long until those visits materialized in a marriage to the beau- 
tiful maid 

"With hair like the wing of the raven 

And eves black as center of night. 
And cheeks where the scarlet yet lingered 

\.s it paled from the brow pure and white." 

< )ur pioneer friend, Esq. John Ewing, had solemnized 
die contract that bound them together for all time. And 
so he had fetched the bright little sister (.Alary) of Attorneys 
James and John T. McKinney to live with the "old folks at 
home." This holy contract was entered into on the 2ist 

< if January, 1815. 

They have so much local gossip to tell me. There have 
been so many marriages in the neighborhood — Robert Tem- 
pleton, Jr., to Alary Adams, by Esq. John Templeton. Feb- 
ruary 14. 1 Si 1 : Janus Drake to Elizabeth Dickerson, by 
Esquire Templeton, May 21. 1811 : Nathaniel Drake to Ann 



THE HOUSE OF II ANNA. IOI 

Dickerson, by Judge Drown, Januarj g, 1S12; James Mc- 
Kinney to Eddy Barrel, August 4. [812, by William Wil- 
son; James Leviston to Nancy Templeton, by Judge Brown, 
( (ctober 20. [812. And of course it took them quite a while 
to tell all the little details of that last named marriage, to tell 
all about her nice clothes and the good things to eat, and 
about everybody that was there, and who assisted Judge 
John Hanna to "fiddle" for the merry-makers to dance. 
Nancy was the first grandchild of Robin and Mary Hanna 
to take the solemn nuptial vows. 

Just ten months afterward all the lower river folk were 
invited up to the wedding of another granddaughter, Mary 
Ann Hanna, daughter of Joseph Hanna, to Mr. Matthew 
Brown, and it was but correct that Esq. John Ewing should 
solemnize their promises. They laughingly said that Joseph 
could not refrain from talking politics and advocating hard 
money, even at a wedding. Graem said, "Joe's always 
astriddle a hobby and rushing it over the breakers." (Had 
officeholders in those days been politically chosen as they 
are in these, Joseph would certainly have succeeded to high 
offices, if talking "political economy"' and the "science of 
government" would have elected him. The great detriment 
to Joseph was that he was a "man ahead of the times.") 

Another son of Robert Templeton, Sr., has entered the 
matrimonial lists. It is David, and he was married to Jane 
Barrickman, June 30, 1814, by Benjamin McCarty, minis- 
ter. It took them quite a while to tell me all about the "big 
wedding" they had at Judge John Hanna's on the 24th of 
August, T815, when Elizabeth A. Hanna (familiarly called 



[Q2 rHE HOUSE OF HANNA. 

Bett) Ami i was united to Peter Winchell, by Esquire Ew- 
ing. It was the most enjoyable social function of the year. 

While we wen- talking- I noticed that two bricks were 
missing from the arch of the fireplace. Curiosity prompted 
me to enquire how they had become dislocated. They say 
that they were shaken out by one of the heaviest shocks of 
earthquakes that occurred in 1812. 

Here Graem interrupts our conversation to tell me that 
there is to be a town a mile north of our homestead, not a 
quarter from William Logan's house, just a little north of it. 
The population all through the country has been increasing 
s< 1 rapidly by immigration that they began to feel the ne- 
cessity for a trading post nearer than Brookville. Conse- 
quently, in 1815, the plan of Hugh Abernathy, ( ieorge John- 
ston, Thomas Osborne and James Wilson materialized in a 
plat of a town, the four corners of their respective lands be- 
ing in the center of the town. They have bestowed the name 
of Fairfield upon their new town because of the general beau- 
ty of the surrounding scenery, and from the fact that it was 
the neutral ground where various Indian tribes were wont 
to meet and camp. About three-quarters of a mile north of 
the town plat is the ruins of a Shawnee village but lately de- 
serted. It is located on a small branch which the whites have 
named Shawnee Branch, and close to its confluence with the 
White Water. There is a shallowness in the river that af- 
fords a good crossing, and they have named it ''Shawnee 
Ford." There has already been builded a log school-house 
a half mile north of the village plat, on the school section. 
and Mr. Harvey dedicated it to Cadmus by teaching the first 
school in it. 



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In i<Sif), when Fairfield was one year old, Thomas Eads* 
came up from Brookville and opened business as a merchant 
in the "new town." Then one by one other little businesses 

were introduced into it until it assumed such importance that 
four years later, in [820, a postoffice was established in it. 
Among the many children who "sported on the village 
green" were some who received laurels from the hand of 
Fame. The early childhood of .Maurice Thompson was spent 
in this village. Two miles or more removed from the little 
hamlet is the farm with the ruins of the cabin where Joaquin 
Miller, the "Poet of the Sierras," was horn. 

Ahont the time the school-house was built a large hewed- 
Iog house was erected on the west side of the river and they 
call it the "Baptist Meeting House." It is so named because 
there have been more Baptist sermons preached in it by itin- 
erant Baptist ministers than there have been by any other 
denomination, there being but a few Presbyterians and yet 
fewer Methodists in the colony. The Logans, in particular, 
were religiously inclined. For a time the I faunas, Temple- 
tons and Ewings were engaged in the judicial and govern- 
mental affairs of the colony, while the Logans, Levistons 
and Swans were concerned more deeply in looking after the 
spiritual welfare of the people, and never missed an oppor- 
tunity (which was rarely given) of having divine services 
in their houses when an itinerant minister chanced along, no 
matter of what ecclesiastical faith he was an exponent. 
Whenever a Presbyterian minister found his way into the 
colony Joseph Hanna was not slow to secure him for one 
sermon, at least, at his house. 



•Thomas Eais whs the father of Captain Bads of "jetty-ship" fame. 



J04 THE HOUSE OF IIANNA. 

Second Morning.— This morning Grandparents Robin 
and Mary lianna and I were alone for quite a while in the 
"room" while Graem and his pretty little wife "Polly" were 
doing the chores. Grandmother sat at her wheel rapidly 
twisting the flax from her rock into smooth fine linen thread 
that is to go into the "piece" or web that is in the loom for 
Polly to weave, for she is an expert, having learned the art 
from her father. I could not hut notice what a beautiful 
accompaniment the constant bur-ur-ur of the flyers made 
to Grandfather's conversation, (Irandmother sat silent, with 
her month all pursed up and a very intent look on her face. 
Graem says. ".Mamma always get the spinner's pucker on 
her face when she gets busy." 

Grandfather seemed in a very reminiscent mood this 
morning, and was disposed to talk of olden times. He w r ent 
to his bureau and taking therefrom a letter with a wax seal 
on it. he returned to his arm chair* saying, as he slowly un- 
folded the paper, "I have received another letter from my old 
friend, Thomas Jefferson. I Avrote him some time ago, ask- 
ing that the widows of Revolutionary soldiers might be 
pensioned," and he handed the letter to me saying. "Read it 
aloud." T complied with his request. 

"Monticello, Jan. 16, '20. 
\ letter from you. dear Sir, comes to me like one from 
the tombs of the dead. 

"So long is it since T have had any evidence that you 
were still in the land of the living. So few are now so who 
were fellow laborers in the struggle for the liberation of our 



•Which choir is still in good preservation at the old homestead. 



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Fac Simile Letter of Thomas Jefferson. 



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country. I rejoice to find that advancing wars are the only 
assailants on your health mentioned in your letter. Time, as 
well as ill health, hears heavily on me. Immediately on the 
receipt of your letter I forwarded it to the President with the 
expression of interest I feel for your petition, and he will 
not be slow in giving- his attention to Revolutionary moth- 
ers. 

"1 tender you my best wishes for the continuance of 
your life and health as long as you shall yourself wish them 
to continue. 

"Th. Jefferson." 

"Gen. Robert Hanna." 

When T had finished its perusal and handed it back to 
him he said. "We old soldiers considered the matter seri- 
ously that if our wives should linger longer here than we 
they should have some recompense for their years of toil 
and privation endured in our terrible struggle for liberty 
and self-government, and as a result I forwarded their peti- 
tion and T now feel assured that JefTerson will do everything 
possible to put the measure through." 

He again went to the bureau and carefully laid the letter 
away in the drawer. He then took out a long sword, and 
drawing it from its scabbard, he waved it in mimic fencing 
as he said with a smile : "Here is a record of my braver}'. 
It was when Tarleton was raiding and devastating our 
homes that T was going home to see my family, and I was 
skulking along rapidly to clear an open country that lay 
around me for about a mile. T had nearly reached the cen- 
ter of the open when suddenly T heard the sound of distant 



108 1 HI. HOUSE OF HANNA. 

clattering of In uses' feet. It grew nearer and plainer, and I 
knew tr<mi the thud! thud! of the many hoofs that they 
were cavalrymen, but whether friends or foes I could not 
guess. But 1 must conceal myself quickly or they would 
discover me when they came around the bend. Then, if they 
were Royalists my usefulness to my country would be ended. 
To the right was a large clearing where bunches of weeds 
or a friendly stum]) could afford scant covering. I dashed 
into the clearing and ran along a shallow branch that rippled 
through it until I had gotten far enough away from the road 
that I thought I could risk lying down in the grass. I could 
just catch glimpses of the approaching soldiers whom I rec- 
ognized as British by their display of scarlet. They were 
approaching rapidly and I had no time to lose. I saw a log 
nearby with some small bushes growing beside it, so I 
stretched myself alongside of it. And I was none too soon, 
for I had only composed myself with my face in a position 
to command a view of the road when they galloped past. I 
i stimated them at about one hundred. I lay quietly a little 
while waiting for more, if there should be any more to come. 
Directl) 1 caught the shuffling sound of another horse ap- 
proaching slowly, and watching intently along the road for a 
few minutes the uncertain!} was dispelled by the appearance 
ol a solitary British officer riding leisurely and thoughtfully 
along the road. He had gotten almost to the point where the 
road crossed the creek when a frightened deer came chasing 
before him and instantly he raised a pistol and fired, 
but missed. I le whirled his horse and gave chase. A second 
pistol was discharged, and this only served to accelerate the 
speed of the deer. A third report rang out witli as little 



THE BOUSE OF IIA.WA. 109 

effect as the preceding- ones. He reined m his horse and then 
turned to retrace his path, but he deviated a little and came 
straight toward me. I thought of his three empty pistols and 
I congratulated myself on my own well loaded ones, and as 
I watched his approach I drew my feet up under me in such 
a way that 1 could jump to a standing position in a moment. 
I [e rode into the creek not twenty feet from me and drop]>< <! 
the rein that his jaded horse might drink He was looking 
away in the direction in which the deer had fled ; and some- 
thing I know not what, prompted me to raise up quickly and 
confront him and hail him along the barrel of my musket — 
"Will you surrender?" My voice startled him and he looked 
around quickly as he intuitively grasped his pistol. I saw 
the frightened look that passed over his face as he remem- 
bered his empty weapons. He made a motion as if to reload, 
and T said again, "Don't attempt to reload, but surrender be- 
fore there is further trouble between us." He gave a little 
amused laugh as he replied, "You see, my friend, that the 
odds are against me, for my weapons are empty and yours 
are filled. Rut if you will but give me a chance with my 
good sword we will soon settle the matter of surrendering 
But as you have no sword I very reluctantly tender you 
mine.* Then I stepped forward and took it from his hand 
as I said: "Now, Colonel, you are my prisoner, but T do 
not know what to do with you. We arc too far away from 
my headquarters to attempt to take you there with me, so the 
only way clear to me is to turn you loose again to join your 
company. But before I release you I must have a promise 



*That sword is still in the possession of Pinckney Hanna's heirs 
at the old Whitewater homestead. 



HO THE HOUSE OF HANNA. 

that you will gallop— mind, I say gallop straight forward 
without halting or looking back until you reach that clump 
of trees yonder" — and I pointed to them. 

"I promise to do your bidding if you will promise not to 
condemn me to a coward's ignominy by being found with a 
bullet in my back." 

••J sincerely make that promise, sir. Here's my hand." 

\\ e shook hands, and he turned his horse and rode away. 

"Why, Grandfather, did you order him to gallop and 
not look back?" 

"Because, if he were galloping he could not reload his 
pistol before he would be too far away for the bullet to carry 
hack. And if he did not look back he couldn't take aim." 

"Ah. ves, 1 understand now. But why did you not talk 
to him and get acquainted with him. He might have been 
some of your Earl, or Baronet or Duke kinsmen." 

"That might have been possible, but I was in too great 
a hurry to get to the cover of the woods to my home by ten 
..'cluck that night to hunt up possible kinspeople among our 
enemies." 

And then our pleasant morning talk was interrupted by 
Mr. Powers and Mr. Glidewell coming in for a neighborly 
chat. 

An election was pending when I came up from town, 
and just before T started T learned from outside sources 
thai Robert llanna refused to be a candidate for re-election 
to the sheriffalty. And T wonder what other "bee" is in his 
bonnet. Something I suspect. Well, the election is over, 
the returns all in, and those neighbors have come in to talk it 
over. The race for Sheriff lay between Tohn B. Rose and 



I ill HOUSE OF EI ANNA. 1 13 

Noah Noble. Rose received 410 votes and Noble 912. Rob- 
ert Templeton was appointed County Treasurer. This is the 
first change made in the office of Sheriff since the organiza- 
tion of the courts in 181 1. Robert Hanna has been Sheriff 
from 181 1 to the present time, 1820, a period of nine years. 
Mr. Hanna must have been a very popular man and a good 
and efficient public servant. 



CHAPTER XVI. 

THE BROOKVILLE LAND OFFICE. 

This office was established in the fall of 1820, as will be 
seen from the following copy taken from the Brookville En- 
quirer of that year. Robert Hanna, Jr., was Register and his 
cousin, Ervin Hanna, Clerk. 

LIST OF PUBLIC LANDS. 

The following is a statement of the lands 
which will be offered at the sale to 
commence on the first Mon- 
day in October next, 
in the Brookville 
Land District, 
viz. : 



Townships 






Tn Range 


East of 2d 


North. 






No. 


Meridian. 


Mo. to and it 






4 


do 


Xo. 10 and tt 






5 


do 


No. 10. it. 12 


13 


14 


6 


do 


No. TO. IT, 12 


13 


H 


7 


do 


Xo. 10. IT, 12 


13 


T4 


8 


do 


Xo. TO, TI. 12 


T3- 


U 


9 


do 


V". TO, TT. 12 


13- 


14 


10 


do 



(114) 



THE HOUSE in IIA.WA. 115 

FRACTIONAL TOWNSHIPS. 

Xo. 10, 11. 12. 13. town 14 11 do 

Making in the whole 36 townships and frac- 
tional townships. 

ROBERT HANNA, 
Register of the Brookville Land District August 
17. 1820. 

The lands in this district were all in the "New Purchase" 
and outside the boundaries of Franklin County. The tract 
was nearly square and included Congressional towns as fol- 
lows : 

In the present county of Rush — 6 whole and 3 half 
towns. 

In the present county of Decatur — 5 whole and 1 half 
town. * 

[n the present county of Bartholomew — 3 whole and 1 
half town. 

In the present county of Shelby — 8 whole and 5 half 
towns. 

Tn the present county of Johnson — 1 whole and 1 half 
town. 

Tn the present county of Brown, no whole and 1 half 
town. 

A SAD HOMECOMING. 

January 24. 1821. is a day of grief ac the old Hanna 
homestead. The people are moving around slowly and 



Il6 I II E HOUSE OF IIA.XNA. 

quietly ami a solemn silence is over everything, for in the 
"room"' is the bier upon which rests the still, pale form of the 
white-haired patriarch of the clan. Just as the morning 
light was dawning life ceased and eternity began with the 
veteran soldier. His daughters, Catharine and Margaret, 
who have not seen him since their young girlhood, will never 
see him more. His other daughter and all his sons are with 
him. All day many kind neighbors have been coming in and 
going out of the house of mourning and offering words of 
condolence and Christian comfort to the bereaved grand- 
mother. 

The third day a large funeral procession wended its way 
slowly to the Sims Cemetery where they laid him to rest. 
When they turned to go away the sorrowing grandmother 
said through her tears and sobs. ''Robin has gone away ! 
Robin has gone away again ! Goodby ! Goodby !" 



CHAPTER XVII. 



A CLOUD ARISING. 



Of course the Land Office brought many people to Brook- 
ville and business and speculations were at fever heat. For 
a period of about five years the town basked in the sun of 
Government patronage and all went well. Meanwhile the 
new State Capitol (the baby sister of Brookville) was seek- 
ing every available drop of "pap" to sustain its ague-stricken 
organism ; then there came a darksome cloud over the pros- 
pects of the fair and happy Brookville. 

This was the cloud : 

"A joint resolution of the General Assembly relative to 
the removal of the Land Office at Brookville to Indianapolis. 
Approved February 3, 1825." 

The Land Office went, and with it went its Registrar, 
Robert Hanna, and he was soon followed by his brothers, 
Joseph and Judge John Hanna. When the Land Office was 
removed a retrograde movement resulted in leaving Brook- 
ville to stand upon her own local merits. All sorts of wild 
schemes had been set on foot to build up a town and make a 
few of its citizens wealthy. Money to carry on these various 
enterprises had been borrowed from the United States banks 
at Cincinnati and elsewhere, also from Eastern capitalists, 

(117) 



Il8 III!-: HOUSE OF HANNA. 

and all these were secured by mortgages upon the real estate 
of the vicinity and upon everything of value in town. But 
the removal of the Land Office was not the entire cause of 
the collapse of Brookville. True it was the explosion, but the 
"fuse" had been burning for some years before 1825. It was 
really ignited by the opening of the "New Purchase" in 1820, 
which gave scope to the pent-up forces here, and a thinning 
out was the natural consequence. 

For many years Brookville had been an outpost. The 
"old boundary" line was only a mile west of the town. 
When, afterward the "New Purchase" was opened for settle- 
ment the Land Office was located at Brookville, and then, 
as now, such an institution brought not only the land offi- 
cers, but a host of patriots who were ready for any emer- 
gency in the line of office. Hence an innumerable company 
of self-sacrificing families came. When the Land Office was 
removed they scattered to the cardinal points of the com- 
pass, still keeping the prize in view, and many of them seiz- 
ing it sooner or later. So that it became proverbial that the 
< rovernors, Supreme Judges, Congressmen, etc., had all once 
lived in Brookville. 

HARD TIMES. 

The bubble had burst at Brookville, whether it had else- 
w lure or not. Harvey Bates, the Tests, the Nobles, the Rays, 
tin Phippses, the Givens and the Hannas, all men of capital. 
had gone, as well as the politicians and business languished, 
and houses were empty. One of the features of these times 
was the almost absolute absence of money. Times had been 
better in this respect. It was related by a granddaughter of 



THE HOUSE OF II AW A. 119 

Robert Templeton, Sr., in speaking of the dark clays, that 
she remembered hearing her father ( David Templeton) be- 
moaning his ntter inability to raise money to pay his tax. In 
their trouble a bright thought came to the mind of her 
mother. She had the plan for raising the money. It was, 
to collect his pension, for he was on the pension roll. But 
that involved a vast amount of hardship and trouble. She 
insisted, and he demurred for a while, but seeing no other 
recourse at hand he consented. Accordingly one day his 
horse was bridled and saddled and, taking some provisions 
in his saddle-bags, he mounted and rode off from his farm 
seven miles north of Brookville to the capital, and to reach it 
he must traverse the dense forest that covered almost the en- 
tire way. Much of the path wound around in the driest 
parts of swamps where the horse often sank to its knees in 
the treacherous quagmire. For the most of the way the 
distinction of road could not be applied to the trail that he 
followed. But he made the trip in safety, and on his return 
handed the money over to his wife for safe keeping. The 
whole amount was $6.15 — a pitiful sum — but it served its 
purpose well, for it guaranteed their home against delin- 
quency for another year. 

There had been two banks in Brookville, and in addition 
to their circulation every merchant and business man who 
had money or credit enough to have the printing done had a 
kind of personal bank — printed pieces of paper with "Good 
for twenty-five cents," "Good for twelve and a half cents." 
"Good for one dollar," and so on, were in general circula- 
tion, each calling for something in the line of the business 
of the issuer. The merchant was good for goods, the bar- 



L2Q THE HOUSE OF HANNA. 

ber good for a shave, the tavern-keeper good for a night's 
lodging - , etc. 

But while that kind of money answered a purpose at 
home, the Kanawha salt-maker and the Pittsburg iron mer- 
chant would not take it for their products. Hence came a 
contraction of the currency, hence very hard times. There 
was an occasional note of the United States Bank in circula- 
tion, with now and then a "Spanish milled dollar" and a 
few quarters and "levies" and ''fips." The truth is, there 
were hundreds of people who very seldom saw money from 
i me year's end to another. The commerce of the country 
was mostly in trade. Lawyers, doctors and preachers, as well 
as merchants, took pay in trade. Preachers and school teach- 
ers took a very considerable portion of their pay in "board- 
ing around." The necessities of the times enforced a style 
of living and a style of traffic now quite unknown except in 
legends and history. Farmers produced nearly everything 
they used. Store clothes for man or woman were exceptional. 
Among the causes which contributed to the dilapidation of 
early Brookville was the necessity of supplying "out coun- 
ties" with officers. Harvey Bates moved to Indianapolis and 
became Sheriff. Jonathan McCarty had had Fayette County 
made out of a part of Franklin and he moved to Conners- 
villc. and became Cl'erk. and afterward went to Congress. 

Moving away from Brookville was the fashion of that 
decade — moving to Brookville the exception. John Test and 
Enoch D. John moved to Lawrenceburg ; Judge Eggleston 
moved to .Madison; S. C. Stephens moved to Yevay and 
afterward to Madison and was appointed Supreme Judge at 



I HE HOUSE OF HANNA. 121 

the same time with Gen. John T. McKinney," who died in 
Brookville while judge, in [837; Isaac Blackford went to In- 
dianapolis and was Supreme Judge a long time; Robert 
Breckenridge moved to Fort Wayne and took charge of the 
Land Office in that then Indian country; Noah Noble and 
David Wallace moved to the new State Capital, one as Go\ 
ernor and the other to become ( lovernor ; J. S. Powers moved 
to Cincinnati; Robert John to the "Sylvan Factory," a mile 
above town, and went into wool-carding ;md cloth-making 
and farming ; the Aliens moved to the country in several di- 
rections ; Judge Enoch McCarty remained loyal to his town, 
and stayed to "walk among her fallen ruins." Abner Mc- 
Carty was a son of Judge Benjamin McCarty. and younger 
brother to Enoch. He was one of the pioneer business men 
of Brookville, where he was employed in selling goods, oper- 
ating stage lines and in various other branches of trade. He 
w r as a compeer of such men as Richard Tyner, N. D. Gal- 
lion and others of that class. He was son-in-law to John 
and Mary Templeton (nee Hanna ) . having married their 
daughter Jane. 

June 1, 1834. June, the beautiful mouth of flowers, is 
bringing in her offering of songs of birds and chirping of 
insects and as the fragrance floats out from her lovely flow- 
ers, so quietly and sweetly passed the life from the dear 
old grandmother. 

She had divided the time in the homes of her son Graem 
( who lived at the old homestead) and her daughter, Mary 
Templeton. And there, the Angel of Death found her and 
bore her spirit away, into that somewhere where we all 
fondly believe there is rest and perfect happiness. Her life 



♦He was brother to Mrs. Graem Hanna Cnee Mary McKinney; 



122 ["HE HOUSE OF HANNA. 

had been full of hardships and separations from her loved 
ones, and she was anxious to lay down its burdens and join 
those who had gone before. Ulessed be the name of Mary 
Parks llanna. 



"Ane by ane they gang awa' 

The gatherer gathers great and sma' 

Till ane and ane mak's ane and a'." 

( )n April ii, 1831, the "Robert Hanna," the first steam- 
In ;u ever to navigate successfully White River, arrived in 
Indianapolis, creating more enthusiasm than did the arrival 
■ if the "Capital" a few years before. An artillery company 
greeted her with a noisy salute. All along the river the 
noise of her "scape pipe" drew 7 spectators for two or three 
miles inland. The boat excited hopes of great commercial 
prosperity. 

< ieneral Hanna had taken a contract on the national road, 
and to facilitate the transportation of stone and timber neces- 
sary for the work resolved to have a steamboat brought up 
the river to tow barges and do other like service. The next 
day a crowd of delighted citizens was taken for a ride on 
the steamer. But it soon became apparent that the craft was 
too large for the river. The limbs of the overhanging trees 
knocked down her chimneys and pilot house and smashed a 
wheel house, and when she stranded on the down trip the 
next day she ran aground and did not get out until fall. 
And so ended General Hanna's scheme of steamboat naviga- 
of White River. Tt affords now only about half the 
water it did in 1831. 



THE IK MSI- OF II ANNA. 



123 



JUDGE JOHN HANNAS GRAVE MARKED. 

From the Indianapolis News. 

The Indiana Society of the Daughters of the Revolution 
held an interesting ceremony last Friday at Greenlawn Ceme- 
tery, and placed the official marker of the Sons of the Amer- 
ican Revolution at the grave of John Hanna, a .soldier of the 
Revolution. 

This is the first time that such a ceremony has been 
held in the State, and this is the first grave to he thus hon- 
ored. The mark of respect is simply one of sentiment; for 
John Hanna was a private soldier. He went into the war 
of the Revolution at the age of fourteen years, serving under 
his father, who was a captain. The first battle in which the 
young soldier participated was Bennington, and the date oi 
the battle, August 15, was the one selected for the marking 
of his resting place. Tn the historical annals of John Hanna 
it is found that he walked from South Carolina to Philadel- 
phia, suffering the privations and hardships with those hav- 
ing the strength of manhood. 

After the war was ended, he and his father's family came 
to Indiana with the "Carolina Pioneers" and settled in the 
Valley of the East Fork of the White Water River. And 
when Indianapolis was chosen for the State Capital he was 
among the first to settle there. He was an honored friend 
of James Blake, one of Indiana's early notables : and was al- 
ways invited to take part in public demonstrations. The late 
John Hanna, Congressman, was his grandson. 

A small headstone marks the grave, and the official marker 
is a round design with a bronze center having the name with 



I_>4 THE HOUSE OF BANNA. 

S. V R., the same as is at the graves of Washington, Adams 
and others. The ceremony included the reading of 
a sketch of John Hanna's life, an address by Miss 
Voss, State Regent of the Society of the Daughters 
of the American Revolution, and the singing of 
" Vmerica." The lot was decorated with flowers and dags. 
It is supposed that John Hanna is the only Revolutionary 
soldier buried in ( ireenlawn. 

There were about sixty members and friends present. 
The committee in charge was Mrs. Drummond, Mrs. \Y. A. 
Bristor, Miss Mcintosh. Mrs. T. V. Smith. Mrs. S. C. Gill. 
Mr-. Sickler and Miss Anna Adams. 



Sons "t American Revolution. 



GENEALOGY 



We subjoin the genealogy of the children of Robert and 
Mary Parks Hanna, beginning with the oldest child: 

John Hanna to Sarah Jones ; died at Indianapolis. 

Mary Hanna to John Templeton ; Union County. 

Joseph Hanna to Sarah Adair; Carroll County. 

Margret Hanna to William Byrd ; Laurens District, 
South Carolina. 

James Hanna to Mary Laird ; Fairfield, Indiana. 

Janet Hanna to Solomon Manwaring; Dearborn County. 

Katharine Hanna to John Hitch : Laurens District, South 
Carolina. 

Robert Hanna to (i) Sarah Mowery ; (2) Olive Cather- 
wood ; Indianapolis, Indiana. 

Graem Hanna to (1) Agnes Taylor; (2) Mary McKin- 
ney. Fairfield, Indiana. 

CHILDREN OF JOHN HANNA AND SARAH JONES. 

Robert Ervin Hanna to Nancy Adams; Dunlapsville, 
Indiana. 

John Jones Hanna to Mary Petre ; McCordsville, Ind. 

(Robert Irvin Hanna and John Jones Hanna were twins.) 

Betty A. Hanna to Peter Winchell ; Indianapolis, Indi- 
ana. 

Jennie Hanna to George Adams; Blooming Grove, Indi- 
ana. 

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Margret Hanna to Andrew Smith. Indianapolis, Indi- 
ana. 

Nancy Hanna to Andrew Howard, Illinois. 

Joseph Hanna, died unmarried; Fairfield, Indiana. 

Kzekiel I lanna to Nancy Todd; Fairfield, Indiana. 

James Parks Hanna to Lvdia Heward ; Indianapolis, In- 
diana. 

Susan Hanna to Peter Newland ; Indianapolis, Indiana. 

The children of Rohert Ervin and Nancy Hanna were 
as follows: Newton, George, Robert, John, Indiana and 
Elliot. 

i st — Newton Hanna married to Charlotte Pullen, eight 
children. Only one living. Alexander Hanna, farming in 
Kansas. 

2d — Robert A. Hanna to Sarah Loomis, five children. 
Two living. 

3<\ — John Hanna to Indiana Gary, three children, one 
boy and two daughters. 

4th — Indiana Hanna to Thompson Osborn. One child. 
Giarles Osborn. Second husband, Jacob Garrett, one child. 

5th — Elliot Hanna to Jane Day, two children. Second 
wife, Sarah Logan, two children. 

f>th — George Hanna, unmarried. 

JONES HAXXA-PETERY. 

Eleven children. 

Tst — Robert John Hanna to Sarah M. Bush, four chil- 
dren — aMary, bjasper, cGeorge. and djames. 

2(\ — Enoch D. Hanna to Leoma Wood, three children — 
aLeanna, bMargaret and cDavid G. Hanna. 

3d — Sarah A. Hanna to Christopher Emery, nine children 



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— aElizabeth Ann. bEnoch, cjohn, djosephus, eMary, fCaro- 
line, gAdaline, hElla and iCharlotte. 

4th — Margaret Hanna married William F. McCord, four 
children. aOlive married William Steel. Her daughter. 
Mary Ella, married C. V. Edwards. bMary E. married A. 
S. Littleton, two children. Frank L. and Xettie M. Littleton. 
Mrs. Littleton married, a second time, to J. M. Smith; on< 
daughter. Marguerite. 

5th — Flavins Josephus Hanna died in Mexican War. 

6th — David V. Hanna to Martha Vanlaningham. seven 
children. aLeoma, bWilliam, cThomas J., dYietoria B., eDa- 
vid V. and fFernando Cortez. 

7th — Nancy Caroline Hanna to John S. Bolton, four 
children. aSusanna A. Bolton married George Dunn ; hRo- 
anna Margaret married D. K. Taylor, one child living : 
cFrank Bolton married Minta Stern. 

8th — George A. Hanna to Eliza Springstein, five chil- 
dren. aAnna married Mr. Bills ; hTda married Mr. Conner : 
eEnoch B. married Ella Cummins ; dCharles T. married Mrs. 
Coots. 

9th — Mary A. Hanna to William H. Harrison, five chil- 
dren, a James McClain. bWorthington, c Wellington, d Alli- 
son, and eLambertine. 

10th — Susan E. Flanna to Israel Ford, one child. Capito- 
lio. married to Armstrong. 

nth — Harriet H. Hanna to Thomas Trittipo. one child. 
George A. Second marriage to Cicero Vanlaningham. 

3d — Betty Ann Winchell. third child of Judge John 
Hanna, has but two children (daughters) living. They reside 
in Indianapolis. 



128 THE HOUSE OF HANNA. 

4th — Jennie Hanna Adams, one child, Sarah, who mar- 
ried Thomas Genn. They had two children, aMary Jane, 
who married ( leorge ( )'Bryan ; bDavid married Harriet Fur- 
geson. < >ne child, Jennie Sherwood. 

5th — Margaret Manna Smith, one child, Robert, who was 
a lawyer and died unmarried. 

6th — Nancy Howard, family not known. 

7th — Joseph, died unmarried. 

8th — Ezekiel. family not known. 

«)th — Susafi Hanna Xewland, no family. 

10th — James I 'arks Hanna, four children. aKate, died 
unmarried ; bSarah married Anson Hornaday, four children, 
James Parks Hornaday, Charles Putnam, William Deeming" 
and Mary Lydia Hornaday; cMary Hanna Birch, one child, 
Helen Hanna Birch, graduated from the School of Music 
at DePauw University; djohn Hanna was the only son of 
Parks and Lydia Hanna. He was a lawyer of prominence 
and was Representative one or two terms in the Legislature, 
and was then elected to Congress and gave satisfaction to 
his constituents. Was re-elected and just on the eve of taking 
his seat he sickened and died. He was twice married; ten 
children. First wife, Mahala Sherfey. six children. aMrs. 
Lillie Berryhill, bWilliam A. Hanna, cWalter Parks Hanna, 
dlsabell Hanna, ejohn Hanna, and fKitty, deceased. Second 
wife, Emma, four children. aElla. bLucia Emma, cHorace 
Lincoln and dFlorence. 

CHILDREN OF JOHN TEMPLETON AND MARY HANNA. 

Nine children. 

[st- Mary, eldest horn of John and Mary Templeton. 



THE HOUSE OF HANNA. 120, 

was married to William Templeton (a cousin). One child, 
Agnes, married James Wright. Second marriage to George 
Miller. No children. 

2d — Nancy Templeton to James Leviston, two children. 
Nancy married Stephen Farlow. Mary Hannah married 
Henry King. 

3d — Alexander (Sandy) Templeton married Margaret 
T. Moore, five children. aMartha married Samuel Hender- 
son. bSimon Bolivar to Susan Collier. cFrancis unmar- 
ried. dMary married Mr. Welch, elrene married to Sam- 
uel Diggins. one child, Edward Diggins. Second marriage 
to Wilson Collier. 

4th — John (Jack) Franklin Templeton married to Luan- 
da Snodgrass, five children, the eldest, Benjamin F. and 
Thomas J., were twins. Ben married Rose Miller ; Tom 
married Mary Sample, three children. Alpha, Katharine and 
Elizabeth. cHelen Templeton to Edwin Beckett, four chil- 
dren. aClementine, bCora, cGrace and dFredric. 

4th — Mary Templeton married Kosciusko Kelley, one 
child, Bessie. 5th — Anna Templeton married Theodore 
Miller, two children, Gertrude and Albert. 

5th — Jane Templeton married Abner McCarty. five chil- 
dren. aCatharine married Theodore Pursell. bjohn married 
and died in California, clndiana married Mrs. Burris. dMary 
Hanna married Henry Galleon, ejane married (1st) Abner 
Bennett. (2d) Lee Yaryan. fBen died unmarried. 

6th — Catharine Templeton married George Newland, 
eight children. aThompson. bAbner, cjames, djohn, ejane. 
fHerod. gDallas and hRobert. 

7th — David Clark Templeton married Matilda Baxter. 



13O IHK HOUSE OF HANNA. 

eighl children, a Julia A. married Thomas Bond. bj. Madi- 
son married Elizabeth Minson, two children. aDavid C. and 
bAddie Jones. cLydia married Jackson Brandenberg. 
dCynthia married James Brandenberg. eMary married Fen- 
ton Brookbank, six children, Brnce, Chase, Ida, Nevada, Ari- 
zona. Matilda. Sarah married McAllister, two chil- 
dren. fUlysses married Mary Moore, one child, Albertus 
Templeton. gNancy married James Barrickman, five chil- 
dren. James. Jr., Bart, Clark, Seth and Nina Barrickman. 

8th — James Madison Templeton married to Mary Burns. 

9th — Julia Ann Templeton married (1st) James Allison, 
1 2d > Judge Enoch McCarty. One son, Thomas Jefferson. 

FAMILY OF JOSEPH HANNA-SARAH ADAIR. 

Joseph Hanna married to Sarah Adair, nine children. 
aGeorge. bMary Ann. c Harper, djane, ejohn, f Albert, 
gHannah, hOliver and ijoseph. 

Jane married A loses Abernathy. Hannah to Elisha 
Lake. Mary Ann to Matthew Brown. 

FAMILY OF WILLIAM BYRD-MARGRET TIAXXA. 

Margaret Hanna to William Byrd, two sons, John and 
Thomas. The latter was a man of considerable note and 
property. One living son resides in Abbeville County, South 
Carolina. John's widow and children went to Texas. 

FAMILY OF JAMES IIAXXA-XAXCV LAIRD. 

I st — The oldest born, Oliver Hanna, married to Mary 

Si rring. aFrancis Marion married Sophia . bNancy 

to Mr. Corrnan, two daughters. cMarv unmarried. 



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2d — Newton Hanna to Martha Knight, two daughters. 

3d — Charlotte Hanna to Fleuharty. Family not 

known. 

Janet Hanna to Solomon Man waring. Xo family. 

1 \MILY OF JOHN HITCH-KATHARINE HANNA. 

Tohn and Mary Hitch, eight children. 

1st — William Windar Hitch, five children. aMrs. Eliza- 
beth Bobo, b Arabella Calhoun Hitch, cHenry Bascom, dMrs. 
Mary Howell, and Pierce Hitch. All are residents of Mis- 
sissippi. 

2d — James E. Hutchison to Mary N. Hitch. Family not 
known. 

3d — James Templeton to Ann E. Hitch, four children. 
a William Henry, blsabella Adella, who married James M. 
Thackston, two children, Mrs. Nettie Sprouse, Mrs. Nannie 
McKittrick : cPerry F. Templeton and dClayton Templeton 
to Amanda Thackston. 

4th — A. S. Hutchison to Isabella J. Hitch. We know 
of but one son. Rufus Hutchison, who is merchandising in 
Galabusha County, Mississippi. 

5th — Margaret H. Hitch to David C. Templeton. We 
know of one son only. Doctor Templeton. 

6th — Katharine Carson Hitch to Rev. Clark B. Stewart, 

six children, a John Wister Stewart to Miss Pedan, 

two daughters, Leila and Rachel Catharine ; one son, An- 
derson Hitch Stewart. Second marriage to Miss Nannie A. 



I 3-' THE HOUSE OF HANNA. 

Williams. hAmanda Stewart to Stoddard, two chil- 
dren. Edward and Cannie Stoddard. cCalvin Stewart to 

Miss Todd, three children. Katy, Todd and Clark. 

dHenry Boardman Stewart to Miss Peden. eight children. 
<.\annie Stewart to Adam Peden. three children. fTwyman 
Clark Stewart to Miss Rabb, six children. 

FAMILY OF ROBERT HANNA-SARAH MOWERY. 

Record furnished by Mary L. Hanna. 

General Robert Hanna was born in Laurens District, 
South Carolina. April 6. '1786. Killed on Peru Railroad in 
Indianapolis, Indiana, November 19, 1858. Sarah Mowery 
was born in Virginia November 10, 1797. Died in Indian- 
apolis August 29. 1837. Married in Rrookville. Indiana, 
March 18. 1813, by Benjamin McCarty, Judge. To them 
wire born ten children. Second wife, Mrs. Olive Cather- 
wood. 

1 st — Valentine Claiborne Hanna was born in Rrookville. 
Indiana. November 8. 1813. Died in Detroit, November 10, 
1884. Frances Mary Smith, born in New York, December 
23. 1 8 18. Died in Detroit, August 15, 1877. They were 
married by Rev. Henry Ward Reecher November 5. 1840. 
There were three children: aMaria Loyd married W. J. 
Wilson, of Washington. D. C, April 8, 1863. bjulia mar- 
ried X. G. Williams, of Detroit, Michigan, December 14. 
1870. cSarah Smith Hanna married F. H. Seymour, of De- 
troit. June 6. 1878. 

Captain Robert Rarlow Hanna was born October 29, 
[815, died in Bloomington, Illinois. March 6, 1892. Sarah 



THE HOUSE OE HANNA. 1 33 

Amanda Colnian was born in Attica, Indiana, September 29, 
1825. Died October 3, 1863. They were married in Attica, 
Indiana, September 29, 1846. There were four children: 
Captain Robert Hanna, U. S. A., married Nettie L, Teasler 
June 17, 1881 ; Samuel Colman Hanna married Lucy A. 
Plowman December 28, 1881 ; Mary Leonard Hanna and 
William Hanna. 

James Fulton Hanna was born in 182 1. Married Eliza 
Johnson. Roth died in the month of June, 1854, leaving two 
children, Sarah Elizabeth, who married Dr. W. H. Luce, 
of Blooming-ton, Illinois, March 16, 1870; Eliza Ellen Hanna 
married George Perrin Davis, of Bloomington, Illinois, June 
17, 1869. They had three children. Alice Scranton Davis 
married Dr. E. Wyllye Andrews, of Chicago. David Davis 
married Edith Elizabeth Mellenish. Mercer Davis married 
Dorothy Phelps. 

William Harrison Hanna was born October 5, 1823. 
Killed by lightning August 6, 1870, in Bloomington, Illi- 
nois. Married Frances Mary Stipp, who was born Septem- 
ber 30, 1822. Died December 23, 1893. There were two 
children. George Stipp Hanna, and William Claiborne 
Hanna, who married Louise H. Weldon, 1881. 

Thomas Jefferson Hanna, born August 5, 1825 ; married 
Mary Jane Bolton. There were four children, Robert Bar- 
low, Joseph Allen, Franklin Lee, and Marietta, who married 
Dr. Richard Newhouse, of Frankfort. Indiana. 

George Washington Hanna. born June 22. 1828. Died 
August 3. 1867. 

David Graem Hanna, Jr.. born September 16, 1830. 

Catherine Mary Hanna, born 1831. died 1888. Married 



134 THE HOUSE OF HANNA. 

Allison Hughs, who died, leaving three children, Nelson, 
John and Porter Hughs. Married a second time to Thomas 
Jones. 

Captain Joseph Madison Hanna, born 1833. Died Febru- 
ary 22, 1862, from wound received at Fort Donelson. 

Captain Jonathan Littlejohn Hanna was born in 1835. 
Married Madeline Smith. Both died, leaving four children, 
Cora, Madison, Jessica and Hiram. All are dead. 

FAMILY OF DAVID GRAEM HANNA-MARY m'kIXXEY. 

David G. Hanna married to Mary McKinney, ten chil- 
dren. 

1st — Mahala Hanna married to J. Ferman Dickerson, 
three children. aTheophilus L. bDouglass F. cLauretta A. 
Dickerson. Douglass and Lauretta were twins. Douglass, 
deceased. Lauretta married Samuel Blew, three children, 
Annie. Wilkie and Otto. Annie married Franklin Cromwell, 
■ lie child, Guy. Sons not married. 

2d — James McLain Hanna married to Elizabeth Susan 
Burton, four children. aBurton Graem. bMary J. cEmma 
R. dEdward S. Hanna. Burton G. Hanna married Lina 
Beauchamp, five children, Charles, Burton, Harry, David and 
Blanch. Blanch deceased. bMary J. Hanna married 
James Gray, four children, James. Burton, Elizabeth and 
Emmalena Katharine. Emma R. Hanna married Henry 
Overhaulser, two children, Edward and Mary (Queen) 
Overhaulser. Second marriage to George Sherman, three 
children, Bernie Sherman. Eleanor and Hubert. 



THE HOUSE OF HANNA. 135 

Edward S. Manna to Martha Templeton, one child, Jes- 
sie. Second marriage, four sons. 

3d — Eleanor Jane Hanna married to William Arket 
Flood, five children. Helen M., Alonzo J., Albertus G., Laura 
E. and Estella C. 

aHelen was married to Perry Beecher. one child, George. 
bAlonzo Flood, deceased. cAlbertus not married. dLaura 
married William VanScyoc, four children, Helen, Grace, 
Bertha and Vernon VanScyoc. Estella Flood maried Dr. 
J. M. Hinkle, four children, Donald, Harold, Warren and 
Emil. 

4th — Robert Vanrensselaer Hanna, unmarried. 

5th — Henry Clay Hanna, unmarried. 

6th — Mary Malvina Hanna to James Blew. No family. 

7th — Catharine L. Hanna to John A. Cruikshank. four 
children. aOrris Graem. bBertha Minerva. cWilliam 
Harrison and dGeorge McLane Cruikshank. Orris Cruik- 
shank to Catharine Stumpf, three children. aKatharvn H., 
Bernice and an infant daughter. bBertha M. Cruikshank to 
Charles Lewis, five children. Shirley, Kenneth, George, Don- 
ald and Robert. Harrison Cruikshank, single. George also 
unmarried. 

8th — John Pinckney Hanna to Jane Burk, nine children. 
Mary Montana. Henry Clay, Robert Lee, William Graem. 
Arthur Burk, James Darlington, Bessie, Joseph Alonzo and 
Ethel. 

aMontana Hanna to Charles Mosier. one child, Tsabell. 

bHenry C. Hanna, not married. 

cRobert L. Hanna to Eva Jones, two children, Raymond 
and Hilda. 



I36 THE HOUSE OF HANNA. 

dWilliam ( i. I [anna to Emma Rose, no family. 
(.Arthur l'». Hanna. not married. 

fjames Darlie Manna to Catharine Smalley, two children, 
Kenneth and Arthur Hanna. 
gBessie Hanna, unmarried, 
h Joseph Alonzo Hanna. single. 

iEthel Hanna married to Henry Sunman, no family. 
9th — Iantha Missouria Hanna died March 13, 1905. 
10th — Sarah Ann Hanna, unmarried. 

Names of those who have occupied positions where Gov- 
ernment or municipal money was given in return for labor. 
We will not repeat the names of those whose positions have 
already been described. 

Robert Ervin Hanna, Justice of the Peace. 

Alexander ("Sandy") Templeton, County Surveyor. 
Here I will narrate an anecdote that is illustrative of the 
many difficulties that the young - student had to surmount in 
his quest for knowledge in those days. In some unfortun- 
ate manner his slate had been shattered to atoms and he could 
nowhere procure another. He had a competent teacher — not 
always obtainable — and was deeply engrossed in the study 
of surveying. So, after revolving the matter in his mind for 
a while, he went out into the old meadow to the place where 
their very large old horse had died, and picking up the skull 
he returned to the house and with the use of saw and knife 
he soon had a fine smooth tablet cut from the "jaw bone of 
a horse," upon which he solved his problems in trigonom- 
etry and surveying. 

J. Ferman Dickerson, Justice of the Peace, qualified De- 



THE HOUSE OF HANNA. 1 37 

cember 5, 1845. Expiration of term November 5, 1850. 
Surety, David Graem Hanna. Bond, $2,000. 

John Ferman Dickerson, Justice of the Peace. Qualified 
March 5, i860. Expiration of service February 20, 1864. 
Surety, Samuel B. Fry. Bond, $2,000. Again qualified 
April 24. 1864. Expiration of term February 20, 1868. 
Philip Fry, surety. Bond, $2,000. 

William Ark/et Flood, Trustee of Curry township, Sulli- 
van County, Indiana. 

Robert Dudley Templeton, Treasurer Franklin County, 
Indiana. 

Fenton Brookbank (son-in-law of D. C. Templeton). 
Captain in the army in the Civil War. 

Sarah A. Hanna, teacher in public schools, Franklin, 
Union and Sullivan counties. 

Mrs. Mary (Hanna) Gray, teacher of music, Sullivan 
County. 

Helen M. Flood, teacher in public schools, Sullivan 
County. 

Iantha Missouria Hanna, matron of Franklin County 
Children's Home. Seven year term. Sarah A. Hanna her 
secretary. 

Estella C. Flood, teacher in public schools in Sullivan. 
Franklin and Vigo counties. 

Montana Hanna, assistant in Children's Home for seven 
years. Then Dining-room Supervisoress at East Haven 
Insane Hospital three years. Transferred to Lakeland In- 
sane Hospital in Kentucky. Dining-room Supervisoress 
four years. She then entered the splendid Asylum of Beach 
Hurst at New Albanv as an attendant. Her term was short. 



[38 THE HOUSE OF HANNA. 

having given up the work to assume the care of a home of 
her own, and Charles Mosier for a life companion. 

I Irris ' r. ( Iruikshank, teacher in public schools and later, 
chosen as Railroad Surgeon, M. D. 

Bertha M. Cruikshank, teacher in public schools. Also 
teacher of piano music in Franklin and Union counties. 

Charles Lewis, teacher, then President of Moore's Hill 
College and later. President of the State University of Wyo- 
ming. 

Charles Hanna, expert food tester, St. Louis, Missouri. 

Nannie Stewart, teacher public school. South Carolina. 

Thomas J. Templeton served in Civil War from start to 
finish. 

Boardman Stewart, M. D., South Carolina. 

Katie Templeton, teacher in public schools Union Coun- 
ty- 
Mrs. Nannie Templeton McKittrick, postmistress at Hill- 
side. South Carolina. 

Mary Templeton Kelly, Supervisoress of a Preparatory 
Civil Service School, Washington, D. C. 

Leila Stewart, teacher. This winter (1906) taught at 
Cowpens, South Carolina, near her home. 

J. Wister Stewart. County Surveyor, South Carolina. 

William Harry Cruikshank, teacher and civil engineer. 
Railroad construction a specialty. 

Frank L. Littleton, attorney. Speaker of the House of 
Representatives in 1899-1900. 

General Robert Hanna. Jr., contractor for a section of 
the great National Road, 1831. 

Mary Hanna P.ircb, teacher in Tndianapolis schools. 



THE HOUSE OF HANNA. 1 39 

George Cruikshank, Comptroller's Office, Duluth, Michi- 



gan. 



Calvin Stewart. Minister, South Carolina. 
Ella Hanna. teacher in Indianapolis schools. 
Lucia Emma Hanna, teacher in Mrs. I Hake's Training: 
School, Indianapolis. 

Isahel Sherfey Hanna, Librarian of Greencastle Public 
Library. 

James Parks Hornaday. on Staff of Louisville Courier- 
Journal. 

William D. Hornaday, on Staff of Indianapolis Journal. 

John Littlejohn Hanna, contractor on street improve- 
ment, Indianapolis. 

Colonel Valentine Claiborne Hanna served manv years 
as paymaster in the Regular Army. 

Henry C. Hanna, Jr., Assesor Fairfield township. 

William G. Hanna. Attendant at East Haven Hospital 
four years. Attendant at Lakeland Hospital, Kentucky, four 
years. Again Clothing Clerk at East Haven Hospital three 
years. 

Captain Robert Barlow Hanna surveyed in his younger 
days the Erie Canal and many of the railroads of Indiana. 
In the Civil War he was Captain of Company H, Seventy- 
second Indiana Volunteers. Was in "Wilder's Fighting 
Brigade" and received a medal for bravery at that time. He 
was wounded and obliged to retire from the army. Was a 
member of the military order of the Loyal Legion of the 
United States at the time of his death. 

Captain Joseph Madison Hanna was in the Civil War and 



140 mi: house of hanna. 

died on a river boat en route home from a wound received 
at Fort Donelson. 

Captain Jonathan Littlejohn Hanna was in the Eleventh 
Indiana Infantry and. though wounded, lived many years 
a ft or the Civil War was over. 

Captain Robert Hanna, Jr.. was educated at West Point. 
Served with the Sixth Cavalry. U. S. A., many years and 
after retirement on account of ill health was expert tester of 
projectiles at Sag Harbor, Long Island. 

Charles Hanna. Attorney-at-Law, Indianapolis. 

Joseph 1 1 anna. Attorney-at-Law, Delphi, Indiana. 

Robert Kane, Postmaster at Brookville, Indiana. 

F.noch B. Hanna, Engineer. 



INDEX. 



Portrait Sarah A. Hanna 1 

Title Page 3 

Dedication 5 

O'Hart's Irish Pedigree 6 

Coat of Arms 7 

Symbolism of Hannay Arms 9 

The House of Hanna 11 

P. Hume Brown's History of Scotland 13 

Chapter 1 23 

Hannah-Ervin 24 

Parks-Littlejohn 25 

Hannah-Parks 26 

Portrait — Theophilus L. Dickerson 29 

Chapter II 31 

Certificate 34 

Chapter III 37 

Chapter IV 44 

Chapter V — Laying Out the Town of Prookville 50 

Chapter VI 55 

Portrait Mary Leonard Hanna 59 

Chapter VII— The Courts of Franklin County 63 

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Chapt >r VIII— Jails C9 

Earthquakes 70 

Chapter IX— General Muster "3 

Chapter X— A Joke 79 

Chapter XI— Indiana Admitted as a State 82 

Chapter XII— The Belligerents 89 

Chapter XIII— Lawyers and Prominent Public Men.... 91 

Chapter XIV 9o 

Chapt ?r V 9S 

Fac Simile Letter Thomas Jefferson 105 

Old Sword in Possession of Pinckney Hanna's Heirs... Ill 

Chapter XVI— The Brookville Land Office 114 

Fractional Townships 115 

A Sad Homecoming 115 

Chapter XVII— A Cloud Arising I 117 

Hard Times 118 

Judge John Hanna's Grave Marked 123 

Genealogy — 

Childi' 'ii of John Hannah and Sarah Jones 125 

Children of Jones Hanna-Petery 12(5 

Children of John Templeton and Mary Hanna 12s 

Family of Joseph Hanna — Sarah Adair 130 

Family of John Hitch — Katharine Hanna 131 

Family of Robert Hanna — Sarah Mowery 132 

Family of David C.iaem Hanna Mary M'Kinney 134 



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